Cold War Culture

Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. It was the age of Keynesianism, of welfare state consensus, incipient consumerism, and, to its detractors - the so-called ''Angry Young Men'' and the emergent New Left - a new age of complacency. While Prime Minister Harold Macmillan famously remarked that ''most of our people have never had it so good'', the playwright Joh...