All In It Together

England in the Early 21st Century

All In It Together
Alwyn Turner
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Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 384pg
9 Jun 2022 UK
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9781788166737
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The headlines may be all Covid now, as a few short months ago they were all Brexit, but the breakdown of the UK' s political sphere has been a long time coming, and it is a symptom of a much deeper malaise. We seem to have lost our faith in all our social institutions, from parliament and the press to banking and religion. All in It Together tracks the spread of this wider disillusionment over the years 2000 to 2015 in a fast-paced cultural, political and social history that will be required reading for years to come. Drawing on both high politics and low culture, Alwyn Turner takes us from Downing Street to Benefits Street as he tells the defining story of contemporary Britain. From key issues such as immigration and the Scottish independence referendum, to grime, Grindr and the smoking ban, All in It Together is brilliantly researched, intellectually stimulating and hugely entertaining.
Hugely engaging . . . splendidly readable . . . Turner' s genius lies in finding the odd little stories that get under the nation' s skin and reveal what people were really thinking. And he is brilliant, in particular, on popular culture, devoting pages to detective novels and cookery shows . . . he writes with a tremendous sense of fun. The result is a rare thing: not just a serious work of contemporary history, but an unashamed, 24-carat hoot -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * Praise for Alwyn Turner:' A master of the telling detail . . . Ravenously inquisitive, darkly comical and coolly undeceived -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday * Tremendously entertaining. . . The stories are just so good -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * Turner may be an anorak, but he is an acutely intelligent anorak -- Francis Wheen * New Statesman * Turner' s seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his readers -- David Kynaston A natural storyteller -- Irvine Welsh * Daily Telegraph * A canter through the past 20 years of English history . . . Serves as a reminder of the ephemerality of so much in culture and politics [in] breezy prose -- Quentin Letts * Times *
Alwyn Turner is best known for his trilogy of books about Britain in the last decades of the 20th century: Crisis? What Crisis? (2008), Rejoice! Rejoice! (2010) and A Classless Society (2013). He has appeared on Panorama, The Moral Maze, Today and Richard and Judy, and written for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Financial Times.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781788166737
Published: 9 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 384

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