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Why is Lisa Nandy unable to say England?
Dear DCMS, I am writing to ask why your press release on the National Youth Strategy doesn’t mention which nation the ‘National’ in ‘National Youth Strategy’ refers to. There are four uses of the phrase ‘across the country’. Which country? Does it have a name? Lisa Nandy’s statement to the House on the National Youth…
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What about England?
Writing in the pages of New Statesman, democracy campaigner and all round good-egg Anthony Barnett has asked its readers ‘what about my country?’. Barnett speaks as an Englishman who wants to challenge the English-born liberal or progressive readers of the New Statesman who ‘almost certainly don’t “feel English”‘? This inability to identify with their own nation, despite…
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The Conspiracy of Silence and how the Tories screwed England
The Conservative Party spent many years telling those of us who wanted an English parliament that an English parliament was not required because English Votes on English Laws (EVEL) was the answer. Any time we raised the issue of England’s lack of representation or the West Lothian Question we were informed that EVEL was the…
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Louise Haigh is at it again
We asked previously ‘Why won’t Louise Haigh use the word ‘England’?‘ Here she is again refusing to say England, informing us that the National Transport Strategy (which applies to England alone – though she doesn’t mention that) will ‘get Britain moving’. Why would you say Britain when it only applies to England? Why Louise, why?…
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Devolution has strengthened the Union
Has devolution strengthened the Union? This is what the politicians responsible for it said. The question is: is the UK stronger as a result of devolution or not? I think it is stronger, because people in Scotland say: ‘Oh we have our parliament now, that is a fair settlement.’ You will get the Tories and…
English Commonwealth 