"They are in fact among the keenest to destroy these institutions and make Britain ever more subservient to the City of London."
UKIP’s election manifesto is a confused document with a remarkably limited understanding of its two key terms: sovereignty and independence.
The indendence referendum gives the people of Scotland the chance to act, to show the world that it's possible for ordinary people to stand up to the establishment. Let's hope that they do so.
What if London is drawing closer to New York and Dubai, but further away from Gloucestershire? Or still more specifically: the stylish bits of London closer to fashionable Manhattan, but further from Hackney and Brixton?
English nationalism has long been trapped between American-led globalisation and small-minded nostalgia. Can England rediscover its identity in its rich local, regional and radical movements?
Two anthologies emanating from the broadly defined British left have wildly different conceptions of progress and democracy. One celebrates protest while the other refuses to stray from the narrow confines of existing political debate.