All In It Together

England in the Early 21st Century

Alwyn Turner

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781782837862
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

'Turner's seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his readers' David Kynaston ' Reading Alwyn Turner's account of life in the first two decades of the 21st century is a bit like trying to recall a dream from three nights ago... uncannily familiar, but the details are downright implausible ' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Weaving politics and popular culture into a mesmerising tapestry, historian Alwyn Turner tells the definitive story of the Blair, Brown and Cameron years. Some details may trigger a laugh of recognition (the spectre of bird flu; the electoral machinations of Robert Kilroy-Silk). Others are so surreal you could be forgiven for blocking them out first time around (did Peter Mandelson really enlist a Candomblé witch doctor to curse Gordon Brown's press secretary?). The deepest patterns, however, only reveal themselves at a certain distance. Through the Iraq War and the 2008 crash, the rebirth of light entertainment and the rise of the 'problematic', Turner shows how the crisis in the soul of a nation played out in its daily dramas and nightly distractions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Alwyn Turner
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue: Faith
• 1 Peace and War
• 2 Left and Right
• 3 Past and Present
• 4 Class and Underclass
• 5 Cameron and Blair
• 6 Bust and Broken
• 7 Grooming and Abusing
• 8 Coalition and Cohesion
• 9 Europeans and Europe
• Epilogue: Democracy
• References
• Sources
• Picture credits
• Acknowledgements