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The Labour Party will never fulfil its calling with Gordon Brown at the helm
This article is cross-posted from Labour Home. Accordingly, it is orientated towards Labour Party members and sympathisers. I am not myself a member of the Labour Party. But I would like to see the La… more →
A National Conversation For England
The rise of the BNP is a consequence of New Labour’s de-anglicisation of Britain
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David wrote 1 month ago: The liberal political establishment and the British National Party uphold two opposing visions of Br … more →
The 2011 Census And the Suppression Of English Identity
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David wrote 1 month ago: On Wednesday of this week, the Office for National Statistics (for England and Wales) published thei … more →
England: the unstated ‘real’ name of the British state
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David wrote 1 month ago: What follows is something of a ‘thought experiment’, as trendy ‘critical-theory … more →
The Labour Party will never fulfil its calling with Gordon Brown at the helm
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David wrote 1 month ago: This article is cross-posted from Labour Home. Accordingly, it is orientated towards Labour Party me … more →
Real Change: Britain or England?
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David wrote 4 months ago: Introduction: Deliberations on British-constitutional reform must factor in the national questions I … more →
The governance of England must not be left out of the process of constitutional reform
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David wrote 6 months ago: Over the past week or so, I’ve been attempting to write a rather long post on the implications … more →
It IS great to be British: Britology at its best
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David wrote 6 months ago: “It IS great to be British”. With its emphasis on ‘is’, this phrase reminds … more →
Britain: The Self-Undermining Nation-State
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David wrote 8 months ago: Britain: the English Empire While other countries formed nation-states, the English built an Empire. … more →
Must Our Modern Liberty Be English Liberty?
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David wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been thinking and reading quite a bit recently on the subject of liberty and the national … more →
“England is a nation”: now what?
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David wrote 10 months ago: I was bowled over by the government’s response last Monday to the ‘England nation’ … more →
England should side with the Palestinians: the possibilities for an English foreign policy
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David wrote 10 months ago: The dividing lines seem clear: conservatives (small ‘c’) and the British establishment b … more →
Speaking the Nation: The search for a new national vocabulary
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David wrote 11 months ago: It’s hard sometimes to say ‘England’ even when you mean it, and mean to. The old p … more →
Naming ‘the country’, or do Scots take holidays in England?
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David wrote 11 months ago: For the avoidance of doubt, I like Scotland and Wales. As a matter of fact, I love Wales, having Wel … more →
England: the void at the heart of UK governance
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David wrote 1 year ago: I have written on many occasions, both in this blog and elsewhere, about the ways in which the gover … more →
The Olympics and That English Britishness Again
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David wrote 1 year ago: I was in London on business on the day of the English and British Olympics victory parade a week and … more →
Is there such a thing as 'multi-cultural England'?
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David wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday, I went walkabout in multi-cultural Britain: in Wood Green and Tottenham in North London, … more →
Letter to Brian Simpson, MEP - Anglophobe
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David wrote 1 year ago: Hat tip to Waking Hereward for this little gem. Here’s what the Labour MEP for the North West … more →
Reply to government consultation on citizen engagement
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David wrote 1 year ago: Just submitted my response to the government’s ‘national framework for greater citizen e … more →
A TV Of Nations and Regions
David wrote 1 year ago: The media and telecoms regulator Ofcom today published the second phase of its Public Service Broadc … more →
