Category: victim politics
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National Populism vs Nation-Building
As Reform’s advance falters, Peter Ramsay investigates why populism cannot provide the politics Britain needs, and elaborates the alternative. ‘…the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions. This will be a people vs the establishment by-election. It’s a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire Establishment, to frankly tell them…
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Britain Against the Yookay: Nation Against Empire
Philip Cunliffe identifies the source of the increasing fragmentation of British politics and society in the imperial structures of the state, and its long experience of relying on devolved government and sectarianism to frustrate the national self-determination of the colonised. We live in the Yookay. Everyone instantly recognises their lives and surroundings in the social…
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The Far-Right Excuse
Peter Ramsay argues that the official reaction to the recent riots in England is an ideological distortion that seeks to deflect responsibility for national disintegration. The riots and disorder that spread across Britain last week involved outright racial violence and intimidation, criminal damage and looting. They were widely condemned, and prosecutors are rightly taking action…
The Northern Star 