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conflict and war, constructing and reproducing a popular lexicon on the British experience of World War II in ways that are widely
interpreted as symptomatic of a coarsening of political discussion. However, the article also emphasises the performative quality
of these masculine discourses in line with the personalisation of politics, and stresses the scope for contestation and ridicule.
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