Roland Smith
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Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Rightist and Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now a Centrist pondering everything.<br /><br /><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs">open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs</a><br /><br /><a href="http://buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith">buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith</a><br><br>🌉 <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/rolandmcs.bsky.social">bridged</a> from 🦋 <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rolandmcs.bsky.social">rolandmcs.bsky.social</a>, follow <a class="h-card u-author mention" rel="me" href="https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy" title="@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy">@bsky.brid.gy</a> to interact
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Alabama's first trans lawmaker elected. Alabama. Got to smile at that. www.thepinknews.com/2026/11/04/a...
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Why not just fire her? Does she really have a power base in the PLP? Considering her awful stint at the Home Office, I'm really not clear what skills Mahmood is bringing to anything. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hp3jhzi6d3fduoupiavvexbj/post/3mqp2uyg4xk2w
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I sense the bigots are taking ethnicity, blending it with English national culture and calling it 'English ethnicity'. No, it's just national culture. That's the only thing that's shared across the nation (and not shared with say the Dutch). Yes, even 150 years ago. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cbvszoqtcywxew6vdl2uyghj/post/3mw6adydnqk2g
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Re English ethnicity: There's no ethnicity or DNA marker that maps well onto England. Same true 150 years ago. At high level, our ethnicity blends with other NW Europeans. At next level, it goes sub-national: Geordies are v Scottish; NW, SW and welsh borders different. English is a national culture