Pretending we can re-enact the Referendum tragedy with a different final act is monumental self-deception – instead we Welsh, Scots, and particularly English must ask – as the Irish have – who are we?
The Brexiteers believe in a myth of British exceptionalism. It's time they stopped telling themselves fairy tales.
Returning to Wales, David Marquand finds that devolution has created a political community interestingly open to new possibilities.
There are glaring absences at the heart of the UK elections contest. The new preface to his ‘Essay on Britain, now’ - by one of Britain’s leading political thinkers tells us why. Remarkably, it suggests ways in which to free ourselves from the trap we are in.
Britain needs a national conversation on its imperilled political and moral culture. Has the Labour leader had the first word?
A retreat from the present unsatisfactory half-way house to a Gaullist ‘Europe des Patries’ would be an act of reactionary vandalism.
José Ignacio Torreblanca accuses Europe’s politicians of having comprehensively failed in speaking to or for Europe. But there is a deeper reason for this failure, shared by politicians and people alike, which is an inability to see beyond a hopelessly outmoded West-East dichotomy
One of Britain's leading contemporary historians and political analysts who served as a Labour MP, worked in the EU Commission and helped create the SDP responds to Anthony Barnett's recent critique of the Deputy Prime Minister
A sweeping response to Peter Kellner's argument for Labour to be the party of the British people and the call by Neal Lawson and John Harris for a 'New Socialism'
A short but sweeping contribution to the OK debate over the coherence and credibility of the British Prime Minister's call for a Big Society.
Political thinker, historian and OurKingdom regular David Marquand discusses republicanism, the future of the left and the Labour party and the forthcoming referendum on AV.
Nation states are in crisis across Europe and globally, their legitimacy undermined by the power of global corporations and the reassertion of pre-modern forms of identity and allegiance.
