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Hard Times today: popular culture and the austerity myth

The myth of ‘austerity’ is our alibi, a myth so persuasive that it has given its name across the western industrialised nations to the very age in which we live.

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“Where are the red-eyed dreamers and clenched fist fighters?

Didn’t they swear when these walls fell a citadel would rise?