Orwell's _Road to Wigan Pier_ works very nicely. I used it for
many years and had students write a paper comparing Orwell's view on some
subject (mining safety, unemployment, fascism) with that in the leading
articles (editorials) of _The Times_. But if I had to discuss the
Brookers one more time I was going to scream. So I switched to Robert
Graves, _Good-Bye to All That_ (1929, rev. ed., 1957) and that works _very
well_ in a British history course (as should a work written by R. von
Ranke Graves). In their papers, I ask students to consider which is a
more reliable source--Graves or _The Times_--for a particular
subject/event, which gives them a nice postmodernist quandary.