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But a more trenchant quote for our times might come from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, written about a decade after Yeats’ poem: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

Despite this he said he argued modern Britain " is the best place in the world" to be "born in a minority group".

As an education policy scholar, I know that Vance and I were lucky to be born in a country that makes such stories possible.

However, one wrote: "I think it’s actually impossible to be born in Britain and not know Oasis like regardless of age."

“Five thousand years of history flows past like quicksand. I’m proud to be born in Cathay,” he sings, wearing a Qing Dynasty-inspired Tang jacket.