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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe debate on Englishness can no longer be avoidedAn increasingly assertive English nationalism; the prospect of an independent Scotland; the economic crisis.... the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHistoric day for the UK: Salmond consults Scotland but can't civilise Paxman
Scotland's Prime Minister has launched a consultation with the people over the coming independence referendum. He...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime to take Britain out of our greatness
Finally, the nature and future of England may become part of the national debate in the UK, as Scotland's First...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?
The Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne and Scottish writer Neal Ascherson discuss national identity in light of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritish Future: State of the Nation(s) 2012
For those interested in the constitutional future of the United Kingdom, the Hopes and Fears State of the Nation...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe national question and the greatest living English poet
Can Englishness be articulated to a progressive project? Perhaps its time to turn to Geoffrey Hill, a poet immersed...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhose Englishness is it anyway?Originally published by the Journal of American, British and Canadian Studies. Berberich, Christine (2009) “A...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCapital E Nationalism versus little e (and €) capitalismTo be a big player in Europe, England needs to be a big nation. Britain cannot fulfill that role because it is not a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNo Union, please, we’re English
The UK's Cabinet Secretary has warned of the break up of the union if the Scottish vote for independence, making the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPatriotic love should not be blind: a response to Demos' Britishness report
A critical look at Demos' latest exposition of Britishness, 'A Pride for Place'.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEuroscepticism: A very English disease?
With the Eurozone crises threatening to blow the Coalition Government out of the water, Gareth Young examines the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Singing Detective, losing one’s skin with irony, clues and no solutions, a perfect symbol of the British diseaseAhead of a one day conference in London, Anthony Barnett recalls how he felt about Dennis Potter's 'The Singing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEngland, Scotland and the North: a view from 'flyover country'
With Scotland on the road to further devolution if not independence, and the cuts set to deepen, its time to talk...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGoodbye Charter 88: a new epoch for democratic resistance has begunA new epoch of democratic reform in Britain is needed to respond to the transformation of the British state, the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTo be British is to experience nothing
A peculiarly British paralysis is the inheritance of a Burkean experience of time - we incur debts now in return for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill Britain ever shake the ghost of Empire?
Reflections on Jeremy Paxman's book, 'Empire: What ruling the world did to the British'.
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Published in: HomeA pond full of tadpoles: memory and memorialization in Alan Hollinghurst's "A Stranger's Child"
In The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst explored the iconoclasm of the Thatcher years. But in A Stranger's Child,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEngland and the Guardian's 'Disunited Kingdom'
The British media are now defensively acknowledging a post-imperial constitutional threat they have been silencing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKE-Petition for an English Parliament: Why you should sign it
Independence for England is supported by over 35% of English residents, yet politicians doggedly avoid the 'English...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhen Oxford is more 'English' than Hull, what's the point of nationalism?
Notions of 'England' have traditionally elevated certain citizens, from certain areas - London, the Home Counties,...
