Sovereignty
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We Live in a Post‐Nolan Age, and Boris Johnson is its Embodiment
In the ‘post‐truth’ world, crises of legitimacy create space for demagogues to cast themselves as authentic speakers of truth to power.
- Conservative Party
- Civil Service & Bureaucracy
- Sovereignty
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Brexit and Gastronationalism
‘Gastronationalism’ is the idea that there are distinctive and authentic national food cultures that are threatened by the forces of globalisation. It is a myth.
- Sovereignty
- Brexit
- Trade
- Identity Politics
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A Second Brexit Referendum: The Myth of Popular Sovereignty
Brexit is an issue that combines the need for urgent practical decision making with profound questions about the value and meaning of democracy.
- Sovereignty
- Parliament
- Brexit
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Sovereignty, Delusion, and the Economics of Brexit
Most Brexit calculations ignore intangible and often immeasurable aspects of Britain’s geo-strategic power.
- Sovereignty
- Brexit
- Trade
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Brexit and the Nations
The central promise of the Brexit campaign was to ‘take back control’—to restore British sovereignty. This morphed into the sovereignty of the British people, but both notions suggest that sovereignty is to be located in one place: Westminster.
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
- Brexit
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Parliamentary Sovereignty and Brexit
In the absence of a written constitution, we rely on authoritative commentators to tell us what the rules are.
- Sovereignty
- Parliament
- Brexit
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On the Retreat and Self-Erosion of Democracy
Since Francis Fukuyama prophesised in 1989 the ‘end of history’ and a global convergence towards liberal market democracy as the final form of human government, democratic rule has been in retreat.
- Constitution
- Sovereignty
- Populism
