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A nation in crisis: division, conflict and capitalism in the United Kingdom
Neville Kirk
Bloomsbury Academic £21.99
NEVILLE KIRK, emeritus professor of Social and Labour History at Manchester Metropolitan University, takes a look at political events in Britain from late 2016 to July 2022.
Kirk covers economic crisis, struggles over Brexit, the elections of 2017 and 2019, and Scottish politics. He examines how the Conservative, Labour and Scottish National parties behaved in these years, using a wide range of source materials.
He makes his position clear from the start: “Some, including the present author, maintain that left-of-centre ‘radical Scottishness’ in the form of the movement for Scottish independence and its desire to create of [sic] a fairer and more egalitarian society, now constitutes the main challenger and possible alternative to hegemonic Conservatism.”
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