English Nationalism

The great British culture crisis…

Jay Burbank on February 19, 2020, 8:24 am

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Gerald Dawe wrote in a 1994 essay that: “There are parallels that can be pursued between the Northern Protestant situation today, and what might emerge in England in, say, twenty-five years when ordinary English men and women can no longer take for granted the stability and reliability of a given history and a cultural identity based unthinkably upon the post-World War II past.” What is striking is that Dawe foresaw this identity crisis nearly to the year. On his estimate …

The case for the Union is far broader than the DUP’s. But is it compatible with a good deal?

Brian Walker on October 16, 2018, 1:14 pm

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Nobody can doubt that Brexit has challenged the stability of the Union, not only in Scotland and Northern Ireland but in England too. In a lecture in London last night he entitled “The Nightmare of History, Brexit, Ireland and the English Revolution,” Fintan O’Toole warmed to his theme, familiar to Irish Times readers, of pouring scathing contempt over the Brexit case, which he dismissed as post imperial “imaginings.” If he’s right and Brexit is creating a revolution at least in …

English nationalism drove Brexit and now supercharges the Tories. What about the UK?

Mick Fealty on October 5, 2016, 2:41 pm

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Interesting presentation from Richard Wynne Jones at an event in Birmingham yesterday on how English nationalism is driving UK politics… He said: “We are entering a new era in UK politics in which the traditional textbook understanding of the nature of the UK is basically wrong – and actually England [and] Englishness is coming into play in ways which we haven’t seen before.” Prof Jones said there is now a “great deal of unhappiness as to how England is treated within …