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national identity Archive
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Could you pass the citizenship test?
Posted on 14/10/2011 | No CommentsA nation, famously, is a group of people who think of themselves as a nation. They may have other things in common – a language, a religion, a state – but those are incidental, not fundamental. What matters is the mutual understanding among the people... -
New borders for British politics to fight over
Posted on 13/09/2011 | No CommentsThis blog reported a year ago on the prospect that the redrawn constituency boundaries for the House of Commons would provoke disputes based on identity. Now that the Boundary Commission for England has published its first report, those disputes have started. Here is Vince Cable,... -
Official languages
Posted on 26/08/2011 | No CommentsLetter published in the Jewish Chronicle, 26 August 2011 Geoffrey Alderman’s reference to Norway in his discussion of the proposed new language law in Israel is more relevant than he realises. (“Knesset is a democratic body”, 12 August) That is because Norway has not one... -
Keep Cornwall whole!
Posted on 26/08/2010 | 4 CommentsOne of the planks of the coalition government’s platform is to reduce the number of members of the House of Commons and redraw the boundaries so that each constituency has roughly the same number of voters. At present, the largest constituency – the Isle of... -
The fate of declining communities
Posted on 03/07/2009 | No CommentsJonathan Guthrie writes in the Financial Times about the problems faced by towns and cities once the economic reason for their prosperity goes into decline. Cities in the north of England, for example, once were ideal locations for heavy manufacturing industry but have now lost... -
Democracy and national identity
Posted on 24/03/2009 | 1 CommentThere was an interesting comment yesterday in the debate about the government’s green paper on a new Bill of Rights. Justice secretary Jack Straw introduced the debate, with a proposal to put down in writing more detail about citizens’ rights and responsibilities in the UK.... -
Immobility
Posted on 03/02/2009 | No CommentsThe dispute about Italian and Portuguese workers having jobs at a power station in Lincolnshire highlights the issue of labour mobility within the EU. One of the fundamental principles of the EU is that of the free movement of workers. The single market is founded... -
Ethnic nationalism
Posted on 08/04/2008 | 2 CommentsAn article in the latest issue of the ever-excellent “Foreign Affairs” suggests that, rather than the European Union representing the defeat of nationalism (as is the conventional way the EU is thought about), it actually represents its triumph. (“Us and Them – The Enduring Power... -
Where does Britishness come from?
Posted on 14/03/2008 | 2 CommentsInteresting comment here by Charles Moore on how Britishness is “artificial” (and he means it “as a compliment”): “It may be that the government’s plan for oaths of allegiance for 18-year-olds in schools won’t work, but I am suspicious of the argument that it is... -
Every country is different
Posted on 20/04/2007 | No CommentsI write this in Munich – I am here for the Federal Committee of the UEF. The UEF FC brings together people from many different countries, all federalist and pro-European campaigners in their own right, bringing together different perspectives on the campaign. A common problem...
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