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Uncool Britannia

Uncool Britannia

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Roisin Lanigan
Nov 25, 2023
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I haven’t written a newsletter here for a while. The things I publish here are often a bit glib or silly and the world recently has been none of those things. It is also a time of year I like to call ‘events season’, by which I mean, ‘the time of year when everyone has parties and I go to them and drink warm wine for free’, so it has been busy!

Anyway, I started writing this essay about the concept of uncoolness in the UK a while ago, around the time Rishi Sunak met with Elon Musk in perhaps the best example so far of what I’m deciding is the era of Uncool Britannia, and recently I decided to come back to writing it. I hope those nerds had a nice time together.

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