Pariah Quotes

“They felt obliged to go on living as if Britain had not died, with troupes of hypnotists encouraging viewers in their suspension of disbelief. Institutions must reproduce themselves - including, perhaps most crucially those of nation and state…They abandoned it some time ago, and what we are left with is not so much Britain as ‘Britain’ - the inverted comma ex-Realm of of Her Majesty… Britain has remoreselessly crumbled into vaudeville ‘Britain’, a realm of general impersonation and self-delusion.”
― Tom Nairn, Pariah: Misfortunes of The British Kingdom