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"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum

Friday, August 08, 2014

The perils of post-modern nationalism

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Like the Conservatives and the Labour Party, the SNP has had a shifting attitude towards the European Union over the decades.  In the 1950s,...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Against TV debates

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Political debates on television are a terrible idea.  Given their history of giving undesirable candidates potentially decisive boosts prior...
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Monday, June 09, 2014

Nationalism: means versus ends

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One of the disfiguring features of the referendum debate is that it is dominated by arguments about economics by people who aren't, in t...
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Thursday, June 05, 2014

On hyperbolic historical comparisons

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In a New Statesman interview, Alistair Darling has caused a bit of a fuss by using the term 'blood and soil' to describe the sort of...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Counting the cost of independence

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When people complain about how much the Queen earns, or the expense of the civil list in general, what's almost always behind it is not ...
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