![]() Another is that Britain must continue to play its traditional role as an enlightened global power. One is that Britain’s defining socio-political division is between a metropolitan liberal elite and a small-c conservative “traditional working class”. ![]() In a set of overlapping and increasingly polarised national debates over who we are as a society, how we want to run our economy and what relationship we should have with the rest of the world, a few assumptions appear to be commonly shared. Wasn’t Labour doing quite well in places like Hackney, Tottenham and Moss Side? So what exactly was meant by “traditional”? What was that a euphemism for? The questioner was unable to answer. The audience member’s question fitted squarely within the dominant discourse of the moment: why was the Labour party struggling in “traditional working-class towns”? But one of the BBC Question Time panellists, the rapper Akala, was puzzled. ![]() This article is a preview from the Autumn 2018 edition of New Humanist ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |