Book Review: Britain’s identity crisis

"...Stephens marshals wide reading and extensive conversations with high-ranking politicians into a persuasive thesis and a lively narrative..."

Blocking the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis: only the mast is visible of one sunken ship, and the top of the superstructure of another. A further ship is keeling over in the distance. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

• Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
• Philip Stephens 
• Faber & Faber, €32.99