Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire - Tapa blanda

Essential reading for all trying to navigate the choppy waters of post-Brexit Britain. --Rupa Huq MP

A much-needed mirror through which Britain and what it means to be British is explored with razor-sharp nuance and detail. The book's contents should form the basis of the humanities curriculum at schools equipping our future generations with a more truthful and grounded understanding of what Britain really is. --Shaista Aziz, journalist, writer and stand-up comedian

Leaver or Remainer, if you think Brexit might affect you or your children or your children's children, read this book. --Peter Florence, director, Hay Literary Festivals

The single most important book about Brexit. Meticulously researched and clearly written, Rule Britannia exposes the racism, ideology and narrow self-interest behind the Brexit rhetoric. --Professor David Gillborn, director, Centre for Research in Race & Education, University of Birmingham

Absolutely brilliant. Extremely insightful and thought-provoking. -- --Dimitris Ballas, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Groningen

Books on Brexit explaining how and why parts of Britain voted to leave the European Union are falling hot off the press. Some promise the full story of the political manoeuvring that got us to this point, others promise to make sense of the vote, with a couple focusing on the supposed evils of immigration and Islam. In Rule Britainnia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson tell a different story. They argue that the EU referendum was part of a last gasp of empire working its way out of the British psyche. It is a view of empire largely based on myth and nostalgia. Dorling and Tomlinson are not arguing for any particular position, but suggest that whatever the next year brings Britain will be much diminished by the process of trying to leave the EU, and that there is no welcoming Empire, Commonwealth, or other set of countries, ready to quickly embrace new trading relationships with us. They do, however, recognise the potential to reshape a post-Brexit Britain, assuming that the UK can accept a world order not based on the past.