Abstract

This chapter studies the uses and abuses of the hymn 'Jerusalem' at the turn of the twenty-first century. After the rise of both Thatcherism and New Labour, it became increasingly important to political movements on both the left and far right, and the chapter explores how the relatively mainstream position of neoliberalism and social democracy were replaced by more extremist positions as 'Jerusalem' was adopted first by anarchists and then the British National Party.