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David Goodhart
The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
London: Penguin, 2017 Read more …

Published: January 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Brexit, British politics, David Goodhart, Donald Trump, Labour Party, Left/Right divide, liberal elite, Michael Walker, New Labour, North American New Right, originals, populism, The Road to Somewhere | Comments closed

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Understanding Brexit:
A Review of The Bad Boys of Brexit

Michael Walker

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Arron Banks
The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign
London: Biteback Publishing, 2017

When I was asked last year by the German-language weekly Junge Freiheit to contribute to their “portrait” series with a piece on Arron Banks, I was in the embarrassing position of having to admit that I had never heard of him. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arron Banks, articles, book reviews, Brexit, European Union, Euroskepticism, Jo Cox, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, populism, UKIP, United Kingdom | Comments closed

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The Brexit Precedent

Michael Walker

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Direct democracy is usually not favored by those whose priority is stability. An appeal to the voters to decide on specific issues has the virtue of cutting short party division on the issue in question but is notorious for exacerbating old cross-party divisions. The first referendum in Britain was in 1973 and the first nationwide referendum in 1975. Read more …

Published: July 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Brexit, direct democracy, European Union, Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, parliamentary democracy, populism, referenda, Theresa May, United Kingdom | Comments closed

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The Economic Crisis Caused by Speculation

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note: The following is the transcript of a British National Party stump speech that Jonathan Bowden delivered in Leicestershire in late 2008. You can view the video here.

Right, thanks very much! First of all, I’d like to start by thanking Jeff Dickens and the people who have arranged for me to come up and speak to you Read more …