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13 March 2024

2 min read

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Explore the impact of politics and understand its key themes.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A TV roundtable discussion with five people against a backdrop of Parliament.

Politicians and pundits discuss the Lee Anderson issue.

A head and shoulders portrait consisting of large disc-like pixels that obscure the real person..

The trouble with identity politics

Identity politics reflected two great longings, a desire for uniqueness, and...

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Christian Nationalism

Christian nationalism: an uncontrollable ideological fusion

Dissecting the ideology of Christian Nationalism, when cross, flag and...

Conspiracy theory

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Marchers carry British, English and Israeli flags

I was angry and you called me Gammon: Gary from Blackpool, Charlie Kirk, and all these flags

A triptych of three faces of wrath poorly heard and poorly expressed

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CCTV footage show two rival protests divided by a line of riot police.

I protested against the Unite The Kingdom protest

The need to see one another

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Angela Rayner pauses while delivering a speech

After Angela, who's next?

Rayner’s resignation should prompt politicians to pause

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A typewriter holds a piece or paper reading 'truth'

In praise of nuance

Life is complicated. The early Christians had a much better way than a...

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Nigel Farage stands and gestures in front of a flag.

It's 2029 and PM Farage has reformed asylum

Are refugees really no longer deserving of our protection?

Steve Dew-Jones

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MPs sit and stand in a crowded parliament.

Who’d be an MP today?

A vulnerable vocation that we should all consider

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An English flag flies on a church tower.

Sorry, Danny Kruger, a Christian nation is a bad idea

Quite simply you cannot build a nation-state on the teaching of Jesus

Church and state

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A commemorative blue plaque on a a wall is smashed to pieces

The country needs fixing, here’s where to start

Turning back the clock, closing the gates, and putting up more flags, is not...

W. Elliot Bulmer

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A suited politician stands looking pensive, framed by two out of focus audience members.

The tragic heart of British politics

As political party conferences commence, Belle TIndall is riveted and...

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Across the heads of a roadside crowd, men wearing orange sashes and military band uniforms march along.

Outsourcing our identities: the corrosive effect of political tribalism

Political identities need to connect with core identities, Andy Flannagan...

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A group of people stand in a field by a fence and a railway footcrossing.

Why we need a gentle radical revolution

Our social arrangement needs to prioritise human relationships, argues MP...

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A politician stands a labelled lectern speaking and gesticulating with a hand.

After Angela: why Christian Democracy still works

Feeling somewhat labelled, George Pitcher unpacks why Christian Democracy...

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A women stands beside in a corridor beside a large window through which a wing of a building and a distant hillside can be see,

"Nobody is neutral": Kate Forbes on her Christian faith and political future

Politician Kate Forbes knows how it feels when public life misunderstands a...

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A frail old lady, the late Queen, rises from a sofa to shake hands with an approaching woman.

What a monarch’s meeting teaches about politics and permanence

A monarch meeting a prime minister is a symbol of a deeper truth in a...

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an aerial view down in to the parliamentary chamber shows MPs sitting on benches on the left and right hand side

The language of politics can’t domesticate religion

Political life’s Left-Right structure fails when it tries to co-opt...

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War & peace

11 November 2024

1 min read

Seen & Unseen Aloud: remembrance, and after the election

Hospitals are home to the truth of war, our psychological state post-US election, and the Trump movie review.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

A Remembrance Sunday service stands to attention around a cenotaph.

Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph.

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This week we mark Remembrance Day with Simon Cansdale as he suggests that hospitals are home to the truth of war; Belle Tindall helps our psychological state post-US election sharing some political wisdom from Luke Bretherton, and Yaroslav Walker reviews the Trump movie and how it comments on the President's recent election success.