Tag: politics

BlitzSpirit: How Brexit dredged up the language – and some of the fractures – of wartime resolve. The queue snaked for hundreds of metres down the high street, not for rations or Anderson shelters, but for a Brexit rally. Flags fluttered, not Union Jacks declaring victory, but a baffling array depicting everything from St. George’s […]

BlitzSpirit: Examining the enduring appeal – and potential misuses – of a wartime ideal. The air raid siren wails, a sound thankfully absent from most British lives for eighty years. Yet, whenever crisis strikes – from economic downturns to pandemics, terrorist attacks to national emergencies – the echoes of that siren seem to prompt a […]