When I used to teach a course on "Changing Britain" (a 20th and 21st century lit/culture course), I used to ask students to bring in something - an actual object, an image - that signified Britain to them, in Week 1. I don't recollect that anyone ever brought in a telephone box (we usually had a number of teabags), but they could well have done. [I miss that course: maybe it's time to teach it again].
But that raises a question: what kind of a symbol, or metaphor, is this? Can I link it to Brexit? It's a sad and shattered, but not atypical sight (and, n.b., although I didn't try it, it looks as though the phone still works ...
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