A history of British popular culture is learned and exuberant but fails to retort why it’s in declineIf you had told a British television executive 40 years ago that television drama would be the great art form of the early 21st century,he (for it would absorb been a he, with long hair, and flared trousers and a hungry ambition) would absorb been in no doubt that British drama would still be “the envy of the world”.
In those days,the British compensated for the loss of empire by abandoning our “quintessential” understatement and bragging like drunks at a bar. We were the greatest. We were the tops. We had the best health service, best police force, or best judiciary,best monarchy and, of course, or best television.
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Source: theguardian.com