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148336
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A "POLITICAL TSUNAMI," an "existential crisis" and "the not so United Kingdom" are several of the many assessments the British media used to comment on the results of the June 23, 2016 EU referendum. The nation was invited to give a simple and unequivocal answer to a far from simple and far from unequivocal question very much like the one addressed to Greek philosopher Menedemus in the 3rd century B.C. whether "he had left off beating his father."
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152558
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This article argues that a return to the history of progressive political thought can help us to think afresh about what a renewed centre-left politics might look like today. The article identifies some significant aspects of this history that attracted little attention in earlier debates over the British progressive tradition—in particular, debates about social ownership, nationalism and distributism. This revisionist history of British progressivism points the way towards some common ideological ground that could provide a starting point for a new dialogue between different ‘progressive’ political parties and interests.
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122117
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2013.
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At exactly 17:14 on the evening of September 15, 2012, in Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium, thousands of fans at a packed soccer game stood up as one and chanted, "Independence!" The timing was chosen to coincide with the year 1714, when Spanish troops annexed Catalonia-of which Barcelona is the capital-to Spain. Catalonia has its own distinct language and culture, and Catalan activists have been fanning the flames of separatism ever since.
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ID:
132117
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2014.
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ACROSS THE European Union, many established parties are floundering. Reelection to office is a rare outcome, but the Scottish National Party (SNP) is one of the few ruling parties to be thriving. Since taking charge of Scotland's autonomous government in 2007, it has enjoyed high poll ratings and has strong expectations of being reelected for a third term in 2016. Except for a four-year break, it has been led by the same individual for nearly a quarter century: a self-confident, popular and utterly disingenuous rogue named Alex Salmond.
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ID:
118997
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067116
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ID:
156340
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THE SNAP GENERAL ELECTION of June 8, 2017, the third in the last two years, produced a "hung" parliament and can be described as a turning point in the country's political history. The Tories with 318 seats came closest to parliamentary majority of 326 seats; Labour trailed behind with 262 seats, followed by the Scottish National Party (35), Liberal-Democrats (12), the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from Northern Ireland (10), Plaid Cymru (4), and the Green Party (1). The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) headed before the referendum by Nigel Farage was left in the cold. Prime Minister Theresa May, who preserved her post, announced that she would put together a minority government with the support of the Democratic Unionists, the only party that had agreed to side with the Tories on the legislation and budget issues.
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ID:
132539
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2014.
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On September 18th, Scotland's electorate will head to the polls to answer the question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" The date has been selected with special care and consideration to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, a legendary victory in the First War of Scottish Independence. The referendum will also closely follow the 2014 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Glasgow (the country's largest city). The Scottish National Party, the primary backer of the referendum, hopes that all of these factors will work together to ignite a feeling of Scottish pride and nudge people to vote "yes" in the referendum. This vote on the future of the United Kingdom is significant not only in its potential to divide one of the world's oldest united territories, but also in the precedent that it sets for other independence and right-wing movements throughout Europe.
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141113
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The decision to replace, like-for-like, the United Kingdom’s fleet of nuclear-armed submarines carrying Trident ballistic missiles was taken in March 2007 – before the financial crisis and the rise to power in Scotland of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Neither event was anticipated then. The recession and budgetary constraints that followed the banking collapses of 2008 had little effect on the project in its preparatory phase, when spending was modest. But the announcement of a referendum on Scotland’s independence, to be held in September 2014, threw a spanner into the works. The SNP pledged to evict nuclear submarines from their bases in the Clyde when Scotland attained the legal rights and powers of a sovereign state. Since there appeared to be no plausible alternative bases in England and Wales, a ‘yes’ vote in the referendum might have ended the UK’s long engagement with nuclear weapons.
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ID:
126190
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