Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts
Thursday, 9 May 2019

If you say you believe in One Nation, aren't you a nationalist?

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‘Conservativism should be broad, not narrow; open, not closed; forward-looking, not yearning for a mythical past. .... We should seek to ...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Welcome to the 'Great City of the West' - mankind's dead end

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In the opening chapter of 'Starman Jones', Robert Heinlein sets the scene with the young hero, dreaming of space, watching the Chic...
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Sunday, 3 April 2016

What links Peter Hitchens, John McDonnell and Donald Trump?

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**** The answer is a hatred of free markets, free trade and free enterprise plus a belief that the solution to our supposed economic problem...
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Sunday, 18 October 2015

Quote of the day - on the curse of left-wing nationalism

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**** The summation of what left-wing nationalism looks like. Ironically, the Scottish government’s underperformance rests precisely on the...
Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Economic nationalism is always a bad idea - even when Will Hutton proposes it.

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**** The other day Will Hutton wrote a piece for The Guardian (as he does) entitled "Selling off Britain is not a sign of strength, ...
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Friday, 26 September 2014

Is the EU more Holy Roman Empire than nascent super-state?

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**** I've thought something like this for a while: These attitudes suggest that the EU could be devolving from a nascent super-st...
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Sunday, 8 June 2014

Ludovic Stur and the revival of Yorkshire identity - a nationalist romance

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This piece of modernist statuary is a memorial to Ludivic Stur - the words below the monument describe him as 'Slovensky Narodny B...
Sunday, 16 March 2014

God gave us small hearts - the rebirth of nationalism

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**** For most of my life the 'direction of travel' (as the trendy term goes) has been towards supranationalism, towards the idea o...
Thursday, 7 June 2012

So does Ed Miliband really like morris dancing?

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**** Today Ed Miliband , for reasons known only to those who advise him, has come over all English: We in the Labour Party have been t...
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Saturday, 26 February 2011

Nationalism, immigration and national recovery - a dark thought

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A Poster from the US National Recovery Administration of 1933   In my meanderings round Bradford, in thousands of conversations with fo...
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