Published: November 21, 2019
Their fundamental concerns are universal: family in its broadest terms, safe communities, and a quiet love of country
“There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when ‘our’ side commits it,” wrote George Orwell in his oft-misquoted 1945 essay, Notes on Nationalism. “Even if … it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if … it is unjustified – still one cannot feel that it is wrong.”
Intellectuals have long theorised over the “disrupted” state of politics in the 21st century: the rise of Trump and the “alt-right”, One Nation’s electoral re-emergence in our polity, Brexit in the UK and the hard-left turn of the British Labour party.
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