A leading Conservative politician in Britain and former shadow home secretary has broken ranks with the political and media establishment to launch a campaign linking government plans to extend the time suspects can be held without charge to a wider erosion of rights and liberties. In a sweeping essay, openDemocracy's founder (and OurKingdom editor) Anthony Barnett assesses what is at stake and sees this moment as a historic test of democratic commitment for liberals and radicals.
Paul Kingsnorth has written an article for the New Statesman - So, is it all right to be an English nationalist? - that challenges the conventional wisdom that you cannot be an English nationalist if you are on the Left Wing of politics.
Kingsnorth echoes David Marquand's call to reclaim England's radical nationalism without the poisionous barbs directed at the Campaign for an English Parliament.
What do you think; can one be left-wing AND an English nationalist?