Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

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a clearly visible section of the New Elite [my capitals] believe Western nations such as Britain are institutionally racist, see their British identity and history as a source of shame, feel much less pride than others in the nation, and feel much less attached to their national identity and the wider national group. They warned, however, that it could also give rise to “what may at first sight seem to be a contradiction in terms: anti-working class radicalism”. That is the central contention advanced by the scholar of populist politics Matthew Goodwin, and if the idea was already looming in the Overton window before his attention-hoovering new book came out, it is now hauling itself onto the balcony and clambering through.

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National Populism is unstinting in its generosity to rightwing populist leaders, and unfailingly compassionate to their supporters. Note: This review gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Review of Books blog, or of the London School of Economics and Political Science. When the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (Sewell Report) argued that structural racism didn't exist in the UK (a claim that was subject to extensive criticism), Goodwin claimed this "dismantles the woke mob’s central claim that we are living in a fundamentally racist society". Macron’s appeal has never been especially broad or deep, and his approval ratings are now at 26% and falling. Others have characterized Goodwin as a "populist academic", [35] stating that he turned from observer into participant, becoming an apologist for populism.

Perhaps director Mia Hansen-Løve could have given us a heroine with more agency, and she relies a little too much on Léa Seydoux’s natural sardonic hauteur to protect her character from soppiness. He traces the recent eruption of such sentiments back to the Thatcher era, which destroyed Britain’s traditional industries and economic boundaries, effectively internationalising the state.

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The Spectator magazine devoted its cover to the “new elite” and how “the woke aristocracy” is on a “march through the institutions”. Goodwin’s new book, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics, reflects this shifting sensibility. The Guardian gives her its lead picture, above the main story about Suella Braverman being accused of “racist rhetoric” by other senior Tories. The only question that remains is what form this radical alternative will take and when it will arrive.Thatcher, having vowed to prevent the UK from being “swamped by people with a different culture”, used the British Nationality Act of 1981 to enshrine an exclusionary definition of Britishness based on blood-ties rather than birthplace. Malik argues that Goodwin now advocates a politics that a decade earlier he would have described as "toxic". More usefully, they provide copious evidence that rightwing populism has been a long time in the making.

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And Liz Truss, who was quite recently the prime minister, claimed that her monumental unpopularity was not the result of incompetence, but of an elite “coordinated resistance” that “reached into the media and the broader establishment”.Moreover, graduates may well be at opposite ends of the socioeconomic scale, as young graduates are facing the toughest job market in recent times. After Brexit, liberal Remainers attempted to erase this dark history and proclaim their internationalist bona fides.

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No doubt many of them do, but Goodwin is Professor of Politics at the University of Kent, and does not think the same as every one of his colleagues.Jon Ronson hosts another addictive series, this time investigating Carol Howe – the glamorous former debutante who joined the neo-Nazi movement responsible for the Oklahoma bombings and became a government informant. We might think of Starmer picking Stormzy on Desert Island Discs, or David Cameron’s professed love for West Ham/Aston Villa. Thus, Goodwin seems to deny ordinary people any agency in pushing more progressive values into the mainstream.