We Don’t Need the Blitz Spirit, We Need the Popular Front

By: Kevin Morgan

If the Left is to draw any comparisons between the current crisis and the Second World War, it should look to the broad left-wing movement that built a consensus for the welfare state.

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Coronavirus is like a war, we’re told, but that language poses particular challenges. One of the peculiarities of the English is that war for us always seems to mean ‘the’ war: Britons of 1940 standing alone with just a colonial empire behind them. All through the Brexit saga we had to wallow in this quagmire. […]

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Coronavirus is like a war, we’re told, but that language poses particular challenges. One of the peculiarities of the English is that war for us always seems to mean ‘the’ war: Britons of 1940 standing alone with just a colonial empire behind them. All through the Brexit saga we had to wallow in this quagmire. […]

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Coronavirus is like a war, we’re told, but that language poses particular challenges. One of the peculiarities of the English is that war for us always seems to mean ‘the’ war: Britons of 1940 standing alone with just a colonial empire behind them. All through the Brexit saga we had to wallow in this quagmire. […]

Coronavirus is like a war, we’re told, but that language poses particular challenges. One of the peculiarities of the English is that war for us always seems to mean ‘the’ war: Britons of 1940 standing alone with just a colonial empire behind them. All through the Brexit saga we had to wallow in this quagmire. […]

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