Sources of radicalism

Clicking through some past postings on EUReferendum I found this piece I did on the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. It compared the fight England waged in the sixteenth and seventeenth century against a foe that was external as well as internal, and decided that it could do with another airing. We in the Bruges Group consider the question of national identity and its opponent, "European values" to be topics of primary importance.