Orell's Faded Lion The Moral Atmosphere Of Britain 1945-2015 [Paperback]

Orwell's Faded Liontraces the history of Britain from the end of the Second World War, during the darkest days of which George Orwell wroteThe Lion and the Unicorn, calling for a British revolution, to the present. The book confronts the actual direction taken by British society against the background of the high hopes of the generation that survived the war. The book also considers Britain alongside its European neighbours, drawing upon personal experiences of living and travelling widely in Europe, as well as experience of left-wing party politics and of the Northern Ireland situation in the 1980s.

[A]n entertaining and potentially thought-provoking read& [James] especially focuses on Britain's insularity and failure to live up to the revolutionary hopes he says Orwell had for it.

Orwell's Faded Liontraces the history of Britain from the end of the Second World War, during the darkest days of which George Orwell wroteThe Lion and the Unicorn, calling for a British revolution, to the present. The book confronts the actual direction taken by British society against the background of the high hopes of the generation that survived the war. The book also considers Britain alongside its European neighbours, drawing upon personal experiences of living and travelling widely in Europe, as well as experience of left-wing party politics and of the Northern Ireland situation in the 1980s.

Orwell's Faded Lion& is a tough, gritty, honest and, at times, bleak overview of Britains political morass since the end of the Second World War. Although what accounts for its most readable quality (I couldnt help but read the entire book in the best part of two sittings) is its clear and concise, rightful apprehension of the truth& [It] makes for a thunder-bolt of an awakening call.