Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and original series of arguments -the politics of 'Stonehenge' the UK's archaic and undemocratic constitution, and finally examines the temptations of state power in Mrs Thatcher's decade.
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