The Death of Consensus av Phil Tinline

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<p><strong>From the Great Depression to the pandemic, a new history of British democracy, revealing how politics is transformed through fear. </strong></p><p>Over Britain¿s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? </p><p>To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities ¿ until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression¿s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher¿s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? </p><p>Tinline brings to life those times, pas