A book of topical short stories. Kitchen sink realism; anti-capitalist; tales of ordinary people in today's austerity Britain... A glossy lifestyle magazine interviews a Walthamstow couple about soft furnishings, designer clothes, the flexible labour market and Marxist theory. In the eponymous novelette, crowds fete the 'warrior king', his fourth wife and eight children at the 2045 Empire Day parade alongside a government made up of celebrities, corporations and the military. An unemployed forklift truck driver sits at home in Stockport with his philosophical cat. A cleaner writes to her sister in Ghana. Meanwhile, back in 1983 a young Etonian - looking forward to the Bullingdon Club and a brilliant career - records his thoughts on a day out in Hyde Park heckling CND supporters. Welcome to middle England Welcome to Gloryhole UK plc