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Gavin Esler: "Brexit without the bullshit."
Presented by: Keats Community Library| 0 | LONDON: Keats Community Library |
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| P | Thursday 28th November, 2019 |
| N | 6:45pm |
Event information
At first I thought that if Brexit were stripped of the bullshit — lies and deceit, scare stories and fantasies — there would be nothing left. But the facts about Brexit are so stark, there’s plenty to discuss and think about.
The key fact is this: Brexit is not an event. It is a process.
Whether it happens or not, whatever version of leaving the EU we end up with, we will be forced to discuss Brexit for years to come.
If we are to survive and perhaps thrive, we need to start with the facts.
Gavin Esler is an award winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels and two non-fiction books, The United States of Anger, and most recently Lessons from the Top, a study of how leaders tell stories to make other people follow them. It’s based on personal encounters with a wide variety of leaders, from Bill Clinton and Angela Merkel to Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, and even cultural leaders such as Dolly Parton.
Reviewers have been full of praise for Esler’s fiction and story-telling abilities. The writer Bernard Cornwell said his novels are "made luminous with wisdom, sympathy and story telling." The Guardian commented that Esler's fiction displays "undoubted sympathy for the human condition and a burning anger, a genuine lyricism, a quick sensitivity and a real understanding of other people." The Financial Times said Esler's stories of people in power and the compromises they are forced to make, shows that he "understands the political beast better than anyone."
Venue information
LONDON: Keats Community Library| 0 | 10 Keats Grove London NW3 2RN |
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| > | www.keatscommunitylibrary.org.uk/index.php |
| ! | 020 7431 1266 |
