Posted AT 3:03 AM EDT on 09/05/08
The rise and fall of Cool Britannia
As I write this, it looks like the current Labour era in British politics is ending. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has seen Labour crushed in local elections. The period that began with Tony Blair's election as prime minister in 1997 appears to be over.
In Britain, politics is complicated, and the political culture is not isolated from the waves of change that are marked by shifts in television taste and style or, indeed, in pop music.
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