Iconicon by John Grindrod review

From Thatcher to Brexit – a history of the country through some pretty good buildings and a vast number of awful onesIf the title makes you think this will be all about the big, shiny, funny-shaped public buildings (“icons”) that we all got used to from around the mid-1990s until the end of the 00s, be prepared for something darker, much more illuminating and rather sad. Chirpy though Grindrod’s prose style is, replete with pop references and hip asides, what he chronicle