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Cool Britannia

Cool Britannia is a term used in some media to describe the contemporary culture
of the United Kingdom, coined in the mid-1990s and closely associated with the
"New Labour" government of Tony Blair. It is a pun on the title of the patriotic
song "Rule Britannia".

The phrase "Cool Britannia" was first used in 1967 as a song title by the Bonzo
Dog Doo Dah Band, but there is no connection between that usage and the modern
coining of the term. This seems to have arisen from the description of London in
Newsweek in late 1996 as "coolest capital city on the planet." The phrase was
coined shortly after and widely used in the media and in advertising. The election
relatively young Prime Minister gave the idea fresh currency. (There is a strong
parallel between this and the catch-phrase "Swinging London" during the early
years of Harold Wilson's Labour government.)

fashionable London scene, 1990s bands such as Blur, Oasis, and later The Spice
Girls, fashion designers and magazines. By 1998 The Economist was commenting
that "many people are already sick of the phrase," and by 2000 it was being used
mainly in a mocking or ironic way.

Similar terms for Wales and Scotland, "Cool Cymru" and "Cool Caledonia"
respectively, were coined but had next to no currency whatsoever and to this day
most people have never heard of them.

"Cool Britannia" was also a registered trade mark for one of Ben & Jerry's ice-
creams (vanilla with strawberries and chocolate-covered shortbread), designed
for the British market.

1. What does “Cool Britannia” describe?
2. When was the Term invented?
3. Did the term first appear in a song?
4. Which magazine have this term arisen recently?
5. What did they want to show with this Term?
6. When did it start to refer to London bands?
7. Did people like this sentence?
8. Which were the similar Terms in Wales and Scotland?
9. What do English people also call with these words?
10. Had you ever listened to this term before?