Whose law is it anyway?

Reivew of Nadine El-Enany, (B)ordering Britain

Joel White ~ RP 2.09 (Winter 2020), pp. 104–107 ~ Review

Nadine El-Enany, (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019). 312pp., £20.00 hb., 978 1 52614 542 0 On the 11th August 2020, in the midst of a tabloid maelstrom around people travelling from Calais to Dover in small boats, the UK Home Office released a statement that departed from their usual […]

Lost worlds: Political memoirs of the Left in Britain

Lynne Segal ~ RP 121 (Sep/Oct 2003) ~ Article

The parliamentary incantation of the ʻnewʼ is now neatly matched by both popular and academic fascination with the ʻoldʼ. ʻThe pastʼ, as Andreas Huyssen quips, is simply ʻselling better than the futureʼ. [1] In the personal arena, it evokes a comforting nostalgia, when not calling up the sorrows of what might have been, as time […]

England, whose England?

Jon Beasley-Murray ~ RP 134 (Nov/Dec 2005) ~ Commentary

Commentary England, whose England? Jon Beasley-Murray By their fear you shall know them. The USA responded to al-Qaedaʼs September 2001 attacks with a proliferation of ﬂags reafﬁrming national pride and widespread support for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, conﬁrmed by George W. Bushʼs 2004 re-election. Spain reacted to the Madrid train explosions of March […]