Professor Danny Dorling argues that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche, fuelled by misplaced nostalgia and profound anxiety. Is there a bright side?
Oxford University geography professor Danny Dorling is co-author with Sally Thompson of Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire.
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