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England, the Stateless Nation.
A great bit of writing from Elliot Bulmer explaining the annual St George’s Day doom loop of agonising over English national identity. Like Kashmiris, Kurds and Uyghurs, the English must debate the nature of their existence because England is – to borrow the term used by Austrian Chancellor Metternich to refer to pre-unification Italy –…
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Mayors from across ‘the country’
On the 12th Dec Rachel Reeves headed up to Darlington to meet with regional mayors to talk about their plans to make every part of Britain better off, and to visit Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) which was hosting the first Growth Mission Board to be held outside London. The people in this photo are not…
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Why can’t the English realise?
European Movement UK recently did a webinar featuring Caroline Lucas and John Denham on the Role of National Identity in the Journey Back to Europe. It’s well worth a watch. In the Q&As there’s a quite extraordinary question from a listener: Why can’t the English realise that their national / regional identity is far more…
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Reform UK: Another British Nationalist Party
With Reform UK predicted to win up to a dozen seats in the 2026 Holyrood election, Alex Massie has said “We can no longer claim that Reform is an English nationalist project.” Why would you have claimed that anyway, Alex? What is it about Reform that makes them English nationalist? Do you know how many…
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Today “regional” is merely code for central direction
Over the past few days there’s been a dawning realisation that Labour’s plans for English devolution might be an attack on local democracy. The Times warned us that ministers are drawing up plans to promise more powers for England’s county councils in exchange for the abolition of district councils. According to the Times, district councils…
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