Britain's elite is telling misleading stories about its noble history because for the majority of British people there is little hope for the future. The UK has become a state obsessed with the power of the past – but a re-imagined past created to mask the exhaustion of the older, positive accounts and the wanton self-interest of the new elites. It is only in this context that the unprecedented explosion of activities and events to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War, and their contents, can be understood. Something serious and deep-seated is at work.
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