Tuesday 28 June 18:30 - 20:00

Daunt Books Marylebone, 84 Marylebone High St
84 Marylebone High Street
London
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The Death of Consensus book launch

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Join us for the launch of Phil Tinline's ‘The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares’.

Join us for the launch of Phil Tinline’s The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares, a new history of British democracy, revealing how politics is transformed through fear. We’ll have copies available to purchase while you sip on a glass of wine and enjoy the evening’s discussion!

About the book

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?

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?

Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.

About the author

Phil Tinline works for BBC Radio; he has made and presented many acclaimed documentaries about how political history shapes our lives. Formerly executive producer of Radio 4’s award-winning investigative history series, Document, he has written for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, BBC History Magazine and the New Statesman.

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