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The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, British fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton , Cumbria , and is led by Adam Walker . A minor party , it has no elected representatives at any level of UK government .
Aug 22, 2021 · 22.08.2021. How the Rise of the BNP Prefigured Modern British Politics. By. Tom Blackburn. Twenty years ago, the far-right British National Party gained its first council seats in Burnley, Lancashire following a series of riots in Northern towns – a new book explores the lessons from their rise to prominence.
British nationalism asserts that the British are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Britons, in a definition of Britishness that may include people of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish descent (those living in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain and historically the whole of Ireland when it was within the United Kingdom).
October 25, 2019. The 2016 Brexit referendum has largely been framed as the United Kingdom’s voting to return sovereignty from Brussels to London. But in answering one nationalist call, the...
British nationalism is closely identified with supporting the monarchy, the houses of parliament, the judiciary and other elements of the institutional status quo, including the Union with England. Support for these British elements is being questioned in the devolved nations.
Feb 2, 2021 · Politics. Gavin Esler: ‘English nationalism is the biggest threat to the United Kingdom’. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland aren’t the only countries neglected by Westminster. Gavin Esler’s...
Amid the global resurgence of nationalist governments, what do we know about nationalism? This review takes stock of political science debates on nationalism to critically assess what we already know and what we still need to know. We begin by synthesizing classic debates and tracing the origins of the current consensus that nations are historically contingent and socially constructed. We then ...
