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I very much recommend Joe Kennedy's Authentocrats: a book about centrism in the UK and it's spurious claims of representing a homogeneous other of 'authentic' 'real people' repeaterbooks.com/product/authentocrats/On Internet Archive
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"Imputation is central to its working: it's rarely the commentator themselves that wants less immigration or, let's face it, more racism, but someone more allegedly authentic who is, we're told, not being given the opportunity to speak for themselves." (Kennedy, 2018, p. 21)Permalink On Internet Archive
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Kennedy, 2018, p. 101.Permalink On Internet Archive
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There's an interesting chapter about the often-neglected pop culture of the Major years and how sitcoms like Keeping Up Appearances, Red Dwarf, and The Vicar of Dibley laid the groundwork for Blairism by continually depicting conservatism as old-school tyrannical traditionalism.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Kennedy presents Blairism - and modern centrism - as defined by its straw-manning of conservatism. To some extent, Blairism defined itself through opposition to the fuddy-duddy conservatism of early '90s Conservatives. This has followed through to modern centrist progressivism.Permalink On Internet Archive
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"All too often, the protest scene didn't just seem aesthetically off-putting, it seemed anti-intellectual: approaching it, you were expected to understand innately that something was wrong but there wasn't much need to know why." (Kennedy, 2018, p. 172)Permalink On Internet Archive
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"Nearly every member of the centrist commentariat, it seems, currently has a book out exploring the "post-truth" landscape and lamenting the rise of the internet, as though the traditional media has always been a vehicle of uncontaminated truth." (Kennedy, 2018, p. 175)Permalink On Internet Archive