The politics of pain: postwar England and the rise of nationalism

Preface: The importance of not being earnest

Introduction

1. The pleasures of self-pity

2. SS-GB : life in occupied England

3. The triumph of the light brigade

4. A pint of beer, a packet of prawn cocktail flavour crisps and two ounces of dog shit, please

5. Sadopopulism

6. The twilight of the gods : English dreamtime

7. The sore tooth and the broken umbrella

8. Postscript: A special place in Hell

Notes.