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The Four Nations: Interrelations
In: Scottish affairs, Band 71 (First Serie, Heft 1, S. 1-15
ISSN: 2053-888X
Civic Republicanism and Citizenship: the Challenge for Today
In: Active Citizenship, S. 16-25
Identity Politics: Multiculturalism, Britishness and Europe
In: Active Citizenship, S. 187-198
The Character of a Moderate (Socialist)
In: The political quarterly, Band 80, Heft s1
ISSN: 1467-923X
Review: Politics of Englishness
In: Scottish affairs, Band 66 (First Serie, Heft 1, S. 95-98
ISSN: 2053-888X
The Character of a Moderate (Socialist)
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 80, Heft 1, S. S154
ISSN: 0032-3179
The Scots and the Union
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 79, Heft 3, S. 449-451
ISSN: 0032-3179
The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 79, Heft 3, S. 449-451
ISSN: 0032-3179
The Four Nations: Interrelations
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 79, Heft 1, S. 71-79
ISSN: 0032-3179
The Four Nations: Interrelations*
In: The political quarterly, Band 79, Heft 1, S. 71-79
ISSN: 1467-923X
Historically and contemporaneously the interrelations of the nations of the British Isles are as important as their differentiation. Modern revisionist historians, Irish and British, understand this better that many politicians and publicists. Nationalism as separatism and strong national consciousness are commonly confused when the English media consider Scotland. Gordon Brown stresses 'Britishness' to preserve the union but this is counterproductive. All his examples of British events are English, none Scots or Welsh, and his British values are mainly universal. A true construction of Britishness is to see it as a strong but narrow practical legal and political framework within which different cultures, old and new, can both flourish and intermingle. So strong are both social and economic interrelations that Scottish independence could be less consequential than commonly supposed.
Comrades: A World History of Communism
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 79, Heft 2, S. 294-295
ISSN: 0032-3179
Do We Really Need Britannia?
In: The political quarterly, Band 78, Heft s1, S. 149-158
ISSN: 1467-923X
Justifications of Violence
In: The political quarterly, Band 77, Heft 4, S. 433-438
ISSN: 1467-923X
The classical and the former Catholic doctrines of tyrannicide remind us that in the Western tradition of citizenship and political thought, tyrannicide is worthy. Recent legislation against the glorification of terrorism is too wide and vague, and denies any link between tyrannicide and liberty. A good production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar should not make the act of tyrannicide per se problematic, but should seize the dilemma of whether or not Julius Caesar was becoming a tyrant rather than a consul with constitutional powers for war or emergency. Both Hannah Arendt and our contemporary Ted Honderich offer philosophical justifications of violence in defined and not uncommon circumstances. Terrorism is sometimes the only resort of the poor and oppressed.