Decking the Shuffle - E-book - ePub

As both a homage and spiritual successor to Tom Black and Jack Tindale's Shuffling the Deck, Decking the Shuffle re-imagines the careers, fates, and legacies of Britain's post-war party leaders by placing them in unfamiliar environments. Dividing the figures between them, the authors take a hatchet to conventional understandings of the country's recent past. From Michael Foot as the face of socialist psychedelia to John Major's laddish libertarian crusade, alongside appearances from more contemporary figures like Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer, and Jeremy Corbyn, Decking the Shuffle illustrates how circumstances guide history far more than so-called "Great Men"and that nothing was ever set in stone.