English Defence League Articles

There’s a column I want to write, and it goes like this: Beneath all the froth about motivations, beneath the wild statements about heresy and depravity and rampant immigration, the English Defence League and the jihadists aren’t so very different: they are...

Stereotypes about the EDL are mostly wrong By Matthew Goodwin — The far-right is in flux. According to the campaigning group Hope Not Hate, there are now more than 20 far-right groups active in Britain, with each attempting to fill the vacuum caused by the collapse of...

In February’s edition of Progress I wrote a piece provocatively entitled England shirt Labour. I called on Labour to embrace positive English patriotism – or at the very least to recognise that it exists. I added the obligatory caveat that, while we can compromise...

Labour should embrace the positive English patriotism that exists in the country By Mark Rusling —The late David Cairns devised the ‘conservatory principle’, which stated that an MP should only become Labour leader if they understand the desire to own a conservatory....