The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (978-0141975979) by David Edgerton

"In the old and distressed pit villages of England, of Scotland and of Wales, forgotten former miners celebrated bitterly. [Thatchler's death] Tony Blair, meanwhile, was making money, working for some of the vilest torturers and dictators on earth. Only satirists, not historians, could do justice to this turn of events." (p. 519)