Nick Pearce
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Riders on the Storm
At the 2017 general election over 82% of the electorate voted for the Conservative and Labour parties. It was the highest combined vote share for the two major parties since the 1970 general election. The United Kingdom Independence Party vote...
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In the shadows of empire: how the Anglosphere dream lives on
The Anglosphere is a term of relatively recent coinage, first used by the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his novel The Diamond Age, published in 1995. But in the last two decades it has achieved much greater prominence in...
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Will post-Brexit Britain overcome or fall further upon Enoch Powell’s troubling legacy?
It is 50 years since his notorious “rivers of blood” speech. Yet, in the intervening decades, Powell’s ideas have entered the political mainstream to take revenge on a complacent establishment. By Michael Kenny & Nick Pearce This essay first...
