An Evening With Owen Jones
vie, 02 de oct
|The Old Courthouse
Mikaela Loach will be interviewing Owen Jones about his new book 'The Fall Of The West'.
Horario y ubicación
02 de oct de 2026, 7:00 p. m. – 9:30 p. m.
The Old Courthouse, 118 Church St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1UD, UK
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Establishment, an excoriating take-down of Western hubris – and the book that reveals why we’re really in the state we’re in.
Almost everywhere we turn these days, there’s talk of a West in decline. Our jobs, our values, our past are all under attack, in the face of which we have become immersed in self-loathing, gone weak at the knees: the West needs to be Made Great Again. We know where this toxic narrative comes from: the nationalist, nativist Right. And now it’s gone mainstream.
The thing is, the West is in decline, self-evidently so. But the truth is that it’s not migrants or Muslims or a woke mob which has brought the West to the edge of catastrophe. It’s good, old-fashioned hubris.
In this blistering new book, Owen Jones explores how, amid the triumphalist sugar rush that came with the collapse of…