Football is a good outlet for defanged nationalism but light-hearted spaghetti japes should not be mistaken for signs of unity in a fractured continent
Football may once have been a closer expression of its nations’ values and aspirations but now it is divorced from the political milieu. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images
. The Treaty of Paris, meanwhile, established the resoundingly unglamorous European Coal and Steel Community – another supranationalist project that sought to unite nations around a common good rather than individual interest. In the 1990s, Britain’s politics was endorsed, propped up and ventriloquised through Brit Pop. Now Starmer has no cultural hinterland at all
Nigel Farage, the most impactful UK politician in a generation, who has failed seven times to be electedKeir Starmer is ‘in love’ with Ireland. It will take more than that to repair the relationshipLet’s take a look. If Keir Starmer really does deliver the feted landslide – beating even Tony Blair’s 1997 success – and the England team win the Euros, we in the UK will be treated to sprawling state-of-the-nation essays.
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