Cool Britannia
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Nov 1, 2026
Jonathan ThomasHOST
The big exhibition at the Tate going until February 14th is the 90s art and fashion.
Jonathan ThomasHOST
The Age of Cool Britannia and all that good stuff is covered in a massive exhibition at the Tate Britain Worth Seeing.
Jonathan ThomasHOST
Hokusai, 36 views of Mount Fuji at the Dolge Picture Gallery.
Jonathan ThomasHOST
That's till January 17th.
Brontë SchiltzGUEST
More so of the 80s, maybe, but certainly some of the 70s in there as well.
Brontë SchiltzGUEST
And the 90s, that kind of span of, you know, from kind of The days of punk through to, you know, Britpop and Cool Britannia feels very still present in Manchester today, which makes it feel like quite a ontological city,
RossHOST
maybe.
RossHOST
I think everyone's always looking back to a time where they felt proud to be who they were.
Ben HabibGUEST
So we need to first go back to 1995 before we think about any form of reform.
Dan WoottonHOST
And it is so telling, isn't it, that that VE Day anniversary took place just two years before Tony Blair rode into government on this wave, ironically, of Cool Britannia, where he almost, I would say, abused the Union Jack, Ben, knowing what he was about to do to our
Ben HabibGUEST
country.
Ben HabibGUEST
Completely.
Clare PressHOST
Yeah, because Tony Blair followed the sort of Tony Blair, who was sort of the UK's Clinton, the centrist left, hipster left.
Clare PressHOST
Do you remember all that? Anyone in the UK who is my age will remember Tony Blair's excruciating Cool Britannia business, which was about sort of inviting Oasis to number 10 and trying to say that Labour was really modern.
Clare PressHOST
It was the
Sarah KaineGUEST
partner of business it was a partner of the arts which sounds lovely
June SarpongGUEST
I think, you know, in this country, anybody that's Generation X and maybe sort of the older end of millennials grew up with us.
June SarpongGUEST
And, you know, there's a sort of a certain affinity that they have towards myself and that that generation of presenters, you know, you know, because it was such an interesting moment in time, you know, whether it was Britpop or, you know, Cool Britannia or whatever.
June SarpongGUEST
And we were the presenters of that era.
June SarpongGUEST
So I feel incredibly grateful to have been there.
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
It kind of contributed to confidence, like the industrial decline had still affected manufacturing communities and basically anywhere that wasn't London.
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
But we were sort of brewing up that weird little moment that I remember flashes of called Cool Britannia.
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
Okay.
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
Is that a phrase you've ever
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
Dad rock.
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
But that's kind of when we start culturally exporting British culture to America, to Europe, and people will be like, oh, Oasis is super cool.
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
Cool Britannia.
Rob MacfarlaneHOST
Where the fuck was that? That was a Dutch
RickyHOST
But we're going to be doing, obviously, Britpop era.
RickyHOST
Cool Britannia.
RickyHOST
Everyone calls back to Cool Britannia.
RickyHOST
Music, fashion, comedy, art, football, magazines, nightlife, Union Jack.
RickyHOST
I mean, what exactly was Cool Britannia? Or was it all of those things? Well, I haven't
FlavHOST
heard of Cool Britannia.
FlavHOST
Have you not? So what is this? I don't really know what it means.
FlavHOST
What is it?
AnnieHOST
And I'm Annie.
TomHOST
And today we are talking about the '90s in Britain, Cool Britannia.
TomHOST
This is gonna be fun.
TomHOST
So we touched on, uh, our childhood experiences of the '90s-
TomHOST
It's kind of becoming a center of culture.
AnnieHOST
Mm.
TomHOST
Um, and the, the term Cool Britannia-
AnnieHOST
Yes
Dan FinnGUEST
It's a dead end.
Dan FinnGUEST
But there's definitely a more niche version of it that applies specifically to the media, and you saw this in the British media over the last 10 or 15 years, and the response to what happened after the crash and post-crash politics where people who came of age in the '90s at the latest got full-time jobs as columnists for newspapers based in London, bought houses in London when it was still quite affordable to do that, went through Britpop and New Labour and Cool Britannia and thought that was the greatest time there ever was, and that should be the aspiration forevermore.
Dan FinnGUEST
And then you saw their younger colleagues who were in their 20s and their 30s who had come of age after 2008, left college with huge student debts, thrown into the rental market in London, short-term contracts, et cetera, and they were much more attracted towards Corbyn and the left and the Labour Party for obvious reasons, because they could identify with it.
Dan FinnGUEST
They could identify with the sense of urgency.
David VanceHOST
It really is.
David VanceHOST
It's like saying, «Look, you little plebs, you're not capable of understanding heavyweight issues, so what we'll do is we'll put it in a little TikTok style video, and we'll flick it out there, and everyone can watch it, and everyone will think how cool and modern...» I mean, this is Cool Britannia 2.0 updated.
David VanceHOST
Uh, look at us.
David VanceHOST
We're, look at us, we're on TikTok.
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