Racial Otherness : He studied the significance of black representation. The ‘ There ain’t no black in the Union Jack’ relates back to the race relations from the Second World war. The black community are constructed as a racial ‘other’ in the predominantly white world of 1950s Britain. He draws attention to ‘Lurid newspaper reports of black pimps living off the immoral earnings of white women’.

– Post-colonial Melancholia : Used to describe the deep-rooted shame felt as a result of the loss of the British Empire. He states that the twin pull of the Empire guilt and the loss of British global power have resulted in a national post-colonial melancholia which is a sort of collective depression that both absorbs and blinkers the British outlook.

-The story of UK race relations post World War 2: In the 1950’s, the black community such as Indians and the Caribbean came to England because ‘we’ were in desperate need of filled job spaces.

Legacy of the empire: In his book ‘After Empire’, which was written in 2004, he suggests that we live in ‘morbid culture of a once-imperial nation that has not been able to accept its inevitable loss of prestige’. He argues that the British are undergoing a crisis of national identity.

The search for Albion: Albionic nostalgia is a representation of Englishness that is marked by nostalgia and produces a whitewashed version of an idealised England.

Ghost Town article: No job to be found in this country,” one voice cries out. “The people getting angry,” booms another. Talks about when the music video was released and how it was against a backdrop of rising unemployment.