Sep 2024 – The Northern Star
1 post published by northernstarnewgmailcom during September 2024| The Northern Star
1 post published by northernstarnewgmailcom during September 2024| The Northern Star
1 post published by northernstarnewgmailcom during August 2025| The Northern Star
Philip Cunliffe thinks we have no national interest in ethnonationalism. (Long read) Ethnonationalism has reared its head in British politics, sowing division on the Right and providing vindication…| The Northern Star
Philip Cunliffe identifies the source of the increasing fragmentation of British politics and society in the imperial structures of the state, and its long experience of relying on devolved governm…| The Northern Star
Lee Jones recently spoke to a conference of logistics professionals about the rapid changes in global politics. He argued that the current chaos is the result of the continuing decay of the old neo…| The Northern Star
Philip Cunliffe explains why nation-building is the solution to the impasse in Western politics identified by Perry Anderson as the Regime. In a recent essay for the London Review of Books, Perry A…| The Northern Star
Peter Ramsay argues that the British right’s proposal for a Great Repeal Act only reveals the futility of its approach to the nation. An online Anglofuturist put out a video last week weaving toget…| The Northern Star
Aaron Wells explains how Labour’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill is unlikely to untangle the political problems in the planning process that plays such a large part in Britain’s building cris…| The Northern Star
In Washington, the struggle within Trump’s coalition between MAGA and Musk is picking up steam. Alex Gourevitch thinks MAGA’s fascist-saluting champion Steve Bannon is likely to be on the losing en…| The Northern Star
Philip Cunliffe asks whether Trump 2.0 marks not only the decisive end of the post-Cold War era, but also the end of an ideological framework that has dominated global politics since the 1940s. As European leaders were arriving for the Munich Security Conference 2025, Donald Trump was on the phone to Vladimir Putin talking peace […]| The Northern Star
Peter Ramsay on JD Vance’s era-ending Munich speech. I knew I was far from alone as I gasped with astonishment listening to JD Vance speak at the Munich Security Conference last week. It may be a low bar, but this was the most powerful and enjoyable political speech I can recall. There was no soaring […]| The Northern Star
Alex Gourevitch assesses Donald Trump’s rapid and disruptive intervention into global politics, and exposes the evasion of domestic renewal that lurks in Trump’s apparent territorial ambitions. Is …| The Northern Star
“There could hardly be a more fitting place for the graveyard of Euroscepticism than Northern Ireland…”| The Northern Star
Part Three: The Decay of Liberalism In the previous two parts of this series, Peter Ramsay argued that the promotion of the vulnerability of citizens is a political ideology that has come to domina…| The Northern Star
Vulnerability as Ideology In a series of three articles, Peter Ramsay argues that the concept of vulnerability provides an organising ideology for contemporary capitalist society, serving to presen…| The Northern Star
This is the text of a talk given by Peter Ramsay to the Desmond Greaves Summer School 2024 in Dublin. He argues that the reconstitution of a sovereign nation-state in Britain depends on the achieve…| The Northern Star
Part Two: Why Is There No Alternative? In Part One of this three-part series, Peter Ramsay proposed that awareness of vulnerability provides the content of both the virtue that the contemporary pro…| The Northern Star
As the war in Eastern Europe escalates with Ukraine’s raid on Russia, Tara McCormack asks why Keir Starmer has pledged to put Ukraine at the heart of everything his government does. Britain’s new L…| The Northern Star
Peter Ramsay argues that the official reaction to the recent riots in England is an ideological distortion that seeks to deflect responsibility for national disintegration. The riots and disorder t…| The Northern Star
In the wake of the general election, Peter Ramsay considers the strongest argument for Britain’s existing electoral system, and explains why it no longer works. He argues that we now need proportio…| The Northern Star
The UK’s general election result might seem like a restoration of the old pre-2016 political order. A bland technocrat has won a sweeping majority. However, Peter Ramsay and Philip Cunliffe argue t…| The Northern Star
With a General Election looming, Peter Ramsay spoke last week at the London School of Economics about why the survival of the British nation is in doubt and why the politics of culture war are an e…| The Northern Star
Peter Ramsay on how Sunak’s deal with the DUP neutralises Brexit and confirms what we have previously argued on The Northern Star: that Britain’s national sovereignty needs Ireland’s reunification.…| The Northern Star
