100 years of British political nightmares
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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?
Freddie Hayward, political correspondent at the New Statesman, is joined in the studio by author and documentary maker Phil Tinline to discuss his book The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares.
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| 0:55.0 | Hello, I'm Freddie Haywood, political correspondent at the New Statesman, |
| 1:02.0 | and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm joined in the studio by Phil Tin Line, documentary maker and author of The Death of Consensus, |
| 1:10.2 | 100 years of British political nightmares. |
| 1:13.0 | And today we're going to be delving into some of these nightmares |
| 1:15.3 | to find out if Britain can never wake up. |
| 1:17.4 | So Phil, I wanted to start with your book, The Death of Consensus. |
| 1:25.9 | I must say it's one of the best political books I've read in the past two years, but let's just |
| 1:29.4 | start with your thesis, because it's quite interesting,'s quite original you try and impose on |
| 1:34.8 | the 20th century this theory of politics tell us about that. Okay so where I start |
| 1:39.6 | with this is that consensus does not mean that everyone agrees about |
| 1:42.1 | everything yeah what I do think it means and this is the subtitle that consensus does not mean that everyone agrees about everything. |
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