The battle for Birmingham’s flags
Raise the Colours has spent the past year covering the Midlands in red, white and blue
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The betrayal of the South African dream
With mobs waging xenophobic violence on the streets, the promise of the anti-apartheid struggle has dissolved
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Americans love queuing even more than we do
Donald Trump’s 4 July parade was an assault on the senses
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Welsh Labour is dying
The forces of nationalism and nihilism are tearing the country apart
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St George’s Day can’t contain the new English nationalism
In Ramsgate, officialised folklore tried to bypass the political passions of the age
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Keir Starmer must forge a future-facing nationalism
Criteria for belonging can be based on the common good
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Flags and loathing in Birmingham
The streets of the city are full of Union Jacks – and a new battle between patriotism and nationalism.
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What is Nigel Farage thinking now?
Enoch Powell is his political hero. But Farage will never be his heir.
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The contested life of Roger Casement
The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and private…
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The prophet of the new right
In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.
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Who can answer the English Question?
Great Britain’s largest constituent is a nation lost within a multinational state.
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England’s revolt against change
Dismissing the summer’s riots as mere “far-right thuggery” is a political failing.
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The Russian ultra-nationalists defying Putin
Ukraine’s Kursk incursion has sparked a wave of attacks on the regime.
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The EU is lurching to the right – that’s bad news for the green transition
Populist and nationalist parties are sweeping elections on the continent, threatening measures in the Green Deal.
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Poland’s nationalists won’t go quietly
Law and Justice have no clear path to government, but that won’t stop them from trying.
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Is “National Conservatism” a dead end for the Tories, or a sign of what is to come?
Rishi Sunak may be tempted by an ideology of muscular nationalism – but he would risk alienating British voters.
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Michelle O’Neill attending the coronation shows up petty unionists
While the DUP burdens Northern Ireland with a stubborn lack of imagination, Sinn Féin has become dynamic and smart.
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What does it mean to be British?
America has its Dream, France its Republic – but Britain suffers from a failure of imagination.
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Union Jacks aren’t just for conservatives
Corbynites who complain about Labour displaying the symbols of the country it hopes to run have given up on electoral…
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Labour must seize the interventionist moment
As the US and the EU embrace an era of state-led economic policy, the UK risks being left behind.
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