Lord Goldsmith’s proposals on citizenship include a Britishness day of some sort. There is something quite ironic about the idea. Where other countries have national days, days of liberation and holidays for freedom, justice, liberty, equality and peace, the British seem to be minded to celebrate the banks being shut. It is a curiously British [...]

Ewan Watt asks me what I think about military uniforms being worn in public by service personnel and, more particularly, the instruction to troops of a RAF station commander not to wear uniform in town. Remarkably, this issue has affected me; at school, we weren’t allowed to wear CCF uniforms in the minibus if [...]

As I understand it, the modernist take on nationalism requires that the nation is not prior to nationalism; that is to say, nationalism may cause the nation or something causes both the nation and nationalism to come about. The nation cannot come first and therefore cannot cause the nationalism.
There are many, competing definitions of nationalism. [...]