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Jonathan Myerson

Jonathan Myerson is a British writer, of radio and television dramas and two novels, Noise (1998) and Your Father (1999). His animated film adaptation of The Canterbury Tales won a Bafta award and was nominated for an Oscar in 1999. He has also been a columnist for The Independent and The Guardian, and is the course director of the Master’s in Creative Writing at City University of London’s Journalism Department. (May 2020)

A Very British Debacle

As it faces the pandemic crisis, while still mired in Brexit talks, Britain today is no longer a country divided by left vs. right or new vs. trad. Instead, this is a nation split between the Won’t-Be-Tolds and the Will-Be-Tolds.

May 4, 2020