{"product_id":"strangeland-how-britain-stopped-making-sense","title":"Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eReturning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting – or maybe discombobulating would be a better word. It is, after all, my home; it is where I grew up, a country I love and am proud of. But either it’s changed, or I have. Maybe both.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIt just feels like a strange land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, his first book since launching the global hit podcast \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe News Agents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the US, Jon was the outsider looking in, firm in the belief that the common language of English masked our fundamental differences; in terms of values and beliefs, it seemed the British had much more in common with our European neighbours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Jon’s account of how much that has changed. The US was a country he thought he knew well but didn’t really; returning home has been in some ways even more disconcerting – either Britain, the country he grew up in, has changed dramatically, or he has. Perhaps it’s both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA trenchant analysis of politics, people, and everything in between, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an unforgettable portrait of a country gone through the looking glass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Radio Times Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47729202462875,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/8897\/3467\/files\/Strangeland.jpg?v=1773153150","url":"https:\/\/ultronio.com\/products\/strangeland-how-britain-stopped-making-sense","provider":"Ultronio.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}