Britain After the Five Crises: Financial Collapse, Migration, Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine

Abstract

1.Britain: a decade of crises, 2008-2022 -- 2. The British Empire: finessing the collapse, 1942-56 -- 3. European Union: particular anxieties, deeper issues, 2008-22 -- 4. Britain's Financial Crisis: debts, bail-outs and austerity, 2008-10 -- 5. European Union: the migration crisis, 1999-2015 -- 6. Brexit Crisis: unpacking some of the lessons, 2016-22 -- 7.The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020 -- 8. The Disaster in Ukraine: tracking the failures of political elites, 1991-2022 -- 9. Re-imagining Britain: crises, identity and representation,1973-98 -- 10. On Living in a Rich Country. - 11. Afterword.