British ideology

Left divide

Right divide

Since the end of the Cold War many of Britain’s intellectuals have sought to carve out new ideologies based on transcending the left-right divide. The distinctions left and right are portrayed as dinosaur categories referring to a lost world of class struggle and elite driven neoliberalism, no longer with any purchase on understanding the contemporary world. In their own ways, Anthony Giddens, John Gray, George Monbiot, Frank Furedi, Nick Cohen and Phillip Blond, have all sought to promote alternative political positions. Coombs traces their shared obsession with exorcising Marx, and their avoidance of examining exploitation as the economic base of the left-right division manifested in the ideological superstructure. Taking each writer as a launch pad for an exploration of prevalent ideological themes, he pieces together the puzzle of today's distinctly British Ideology.

This is from the website http://royalholloway.academia.edu/NathanCoombs/Books/178564/The_British_Ideology