Author: John Denham

Professor John Denham was Labour MP for Southampton Itchen from 1992 to 2015. He is director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at the University of Southampton.

2 March 2023

‘Anglo-British Unionism Will Not Save the Union’

Only when England can see itself as England will it be possible to challenge the idea that Britain is England, writes former Labour MP John Denham

John Denham

Constitution, Devolution, England, Identity, Labour Party, Scotland, Scottish Independence, Society, UK Politics
10 March 2021

‘Implying Anyone Who is Not White Is Not English is a Bad Message for the State to Send’

Professor John Denham dissects a peculiarity on the 2021 English Census, which could have potentially damaging repercussions

John Denham

England, Identity, UK Politics
15 September 2020

The Strange Relationship Between British and English Nationalism

Former Labour MP John Denham explains how the repressed impulses of English nationalism represent themselves in Boris, Borishness and Britishness

John Denham

Boris Johnson, Class, Coronavirus, Devolution, England, Identity, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK Politics, Wales
23 April 2020

Could COVID-19 Bring with it a New Inclusive Englishness?

Former MP John Denham considers the return of the nation state, British myths and how the Coronavirus crisis could help forge a new national story for England.

John Denham

Brexit, Class, Coronavirus, England, Identity, Society, Sociology, UK Politics