Don't look back in anger: did Britpop cause Brexit?

It’s a thesis doing the rounds – and is full of holes. But there’s no denying that Britpop’s nostalgia did make flag-waving nationalism more acceptable Part of what makes pop music great is unintended consequences. The French musician Michel Bernholc could not have conceived that, a decade after his 1971 novelty hit Burundi Black, British pop would be in thrall to that sound, reconfigured by a man who dressed as a highwayman or a hussar; when Dave Davies stuck his guitar