Phoebe Waller-Bridge talked sex. Ken Loach exposed class. Amy Winehouse hit listeners in the heart. After
Brexit, does
British culture still inspire the same affection abroad? Europe’s leading critics give their thoughts
Back in the late 90s, when I lived in
London, the
UK was in the EU, Tony Blair had led
Labour to a landslide win, rave
music was roaring out of clubs, in-yer-face theatre was all the rage, the National Theatre had a bias for the classics and standing ovations were a rarity.