pickSuperb dissection of the act of collective madness that is Brexit by one of the astutest political commentators writing today. O'Toole identifies the roots of Brexit in a peculiarly English masochistic fantasy and references punk, the Hundred Years War and The Italian job among much else. Brilliant.
It is not as far as it seems from the stiff upper lip to the curled lip, from the heroic not caring of Captain Scott to the great snarl of Rotten‘s ‘And we don‘t care‘ at the end of ‘Pretty Vacant‘. But punk also created the most powerful paradox in the deep neurosis of Brexit: the strange psychic mash-up of revolt and pain, of bondage and freedom, of liberation and self-harm.
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain | 
