Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

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By Fintan O'Toole

Published Feb. 21, 2019

In Heroic Failure (Apollo), literary critic and Irish political commentator Fintan O’Toole analyzes the attitudes that led to the vote to Brexit and subsequent political chaos in Britain. England, in O’Toole’s eyes, has adopted an unnecessary sense of victimhood and poorly guided nostalgia for the Britain that subjugated the world.

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