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"(Mis)Rule Britannia: Brexit is the last gasp of empire"

"(...) in the process of creating an era of misrule and mistakes that will have serious consequences for all the people of the four nations that currently make up Britain, for those in many connected European countries, and well beyond."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/02/20/misrule-britannia-brexit-is-the-last-gasp-of-empire

Livestream (13Feb2019) from the London Review Bookshop, where Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson discussed with Maya Goodfellow their new book, ‘Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire’:

https://www.facebook.com/LondonReviewOfBooks/videos/danny-dorling-and-sally-tomlinson-brexit-and-the-end-of-empire/454370228432614/



"Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain"

"It's not about then relationship with Europe, 
it's much more about Britain's relationship to itself"

https://paw.princeton.edu/new-books/heroic-failure-brexit-and-politics-pain

Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole delivered the first Jean Monnet Lecture for 2019,
organised by UCC's Department of Government and Politics, 18 Jan 2019:
https://youtu.be/vdBRm3UGP9w



"Think the Commonwealth can save Brexit Britain? That’s utter delusion"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/11/commonwealth-save-brexit-britain-utter-delusion-kevin-rudd





"Rule Britannia - Last Night of The Proms 2009" (youtube video)

"Rule, Britannia! is a British patriotic song (strongly associated with the Royal Navy, but also used by the British Army) originating from the poem "Rule, Britannia" by James Thomson and set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740."

detail: Jolly Roger Pirate Flag waving at 2min17

"Jolly Roger is the traditional English name for the flags flown to identify a pirate ship about to attack, during the early 18th century (the later part of the Golden Age of Piracy).

The flag most commonly identified as the Jolly Roger today, the skull and crossbones symbol on a black flag, was used during the 1710s by a number of pirate captains including Black Sam Bellamy, Edward England and John Taylor. It went on to become the most commonly used pirate flag during the 1720s, although other designs were also in use."