Ebook: Iron Britannia: time to take the Great out of Britain

<div><p>On April 2 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force was sailing for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina's surrender 74 days later set Margaret Thatcher on course for her second election victory.</p><p>Anthony Barnett's <i>Iron Britannia</i>, first published in 1982, turned down the din of war and diagnosed something rotten in the British state. This new edition offers a new extended preface by Barnett, addressing UK foreign policy post-Falklands; plus additional texts Barnett wrote at the time.</p><p>'A furious, sometimes gleeful and often witty polemic against the decaying British political system which the conflict revealed.' Neal Ascherson, <i>London Review of Books</i></p><p>'Anthony Barnett makes a variety of telling points... Most tellingly of all, the concept he puts forward of 'Churchillism',...