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,nited Kingdom,ften really about contemporary British identity, politics and law. The chapter locates this study within the literature on popular culture, politics and national identity. ., it argues, is a particularly rich source of commentary on national identity owning to its template and tropes, making British

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,“One Tiny, Damp Little Island”: ,’s Construction of Britishness,n assesses the content or substance of .’s Britishness in terms of its stances on entrepreneurism, the public service ethos, race, class, gender and sexuality. Contending that the show’s vision of national identity is egalitarian in some respects, conservative in others, the chapter argues that . no

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,“Lots of Planets Have a North!”: Scottishness, Welshness and Northernness in ,,3–1989) set in Scotland and Wales projected a sense of backwardness and lack of agency on the part of Scottish and Welsh characters, thereby reflecting a non-egalitarian unionism. By contrast, new-series . (2005–present) tends to give its Scottish and Welsh characters a greater sense of agency and m

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Is the Doctor a War Criminal?, for the most part, fight for good and against evil, the merits of his interventions have been questionable on a number of occasions. Post-2005 new ., unlike the “classic” series, includes considerable criticism of the Doctor’s actions. Arguably, such criticism has served as a metaphor for qualms ov

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,Conclusion: ,’s Post-Democratic Britain, the firm has led to politics regressing to the elite control of the pre-democratic era. Instancing three stories from new-series ., the chapter argues that the contemporary programme engages many of post-democracy’s key features. These include the establishment of a new, dominant combined economic

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Book 2018 Britishness in terms of individualism, entrepreneurship, public service, class, gender, race and sexuality. It analyses the show’s response to the pressures on British identity wrought by devolution and separatist currents in Scotland and Wales, globalisation, foreign policy adventures and the unrelenting rise of the transnational corporation..