{"id":7262,"date":"2019-05-06T14:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2022-08-22T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:59:17","slug":"lakin-mccarthy-presents-danny-dorling-rule-britannia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/?p=7262","title":{"rendered":"Lakin McCarthy Presents Danny Dorling: Rule Britannia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A talk on &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/books\/rulebritannia\/\">Rule Britannia, From Brexit to the end of Empire<\/a>&#8216; \u2013 at Komedia Comedy Club, Brighton, May 5th 2019.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now is the hour to turn our attention to what really went so very wrong for Britain: accepting gross inequality, not understanding our own history, blaming the north and the working class for what the south and the middle class chose &#8211; Brexit. An authoritative, insightful and entertaining look at our controversial past, the anxiety-filled present . . . and the possibility of a fairer future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7252782-lakin-mccarthy-presents-danny-dorling-rule-britannia\/embed\/v4?eid=AQAAAHk70Fwuq24A\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/books\/rulebritannia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7263\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7263\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/May2019LocalElections-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/May2019LocalElections-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/May2019LocalElections-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/May2019LocalElections.png 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mock &#8220;BBC graphic&#8221; of how many seats each losing party lost in the local elections of May 2019<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7264\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7264\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/WebBanner_RuleBritannia-1024x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/WebBanner_RuleBritannia-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/WebBanner_RuleBritannia-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/WebBanner_RuleBritannia-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/wp-content\/files\/WebBanner_RuleBritannia.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rule Britannia: From Brexit to the end of Empire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk on &#8216;Rule Britannia, From Brexit to the end of Empire&#8216; \u2013 at Komedia Comedy Club, Brighton, May 5th 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions\/8944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannydorling.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}