The appropriation of the St George's flag by elements of the far right has also intensified squeamishness for English nationalism. But the relationship between the people of England and the ...

The union can survive its current period of volatility, but moves like English votes for English laws and ruling out a UK coalition with the SNP could yet bring it down.

The Protestant ascendancy in England, for example, was an established fact as English nationalism consolidated in the eighteenth century. In newer nations, the same process of one group’s trying to ...