{"id":33832,"date":"2026-06-25T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/?p=33832"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:25:19","slug":"is-burnhamism-about-restoring-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alameda.institute\/pt\/type-article\/is-burnhamism-about-restoring-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"O burnhamismo tem a ver com a restaura\u00e7\u00e3o da soberania?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Este artigo foi publicado na \u00edntegra no The New Statesman<\/em> e faz parte do programa After Order<\/a> projeto<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Beneath the slogans and nicknames, Burnham is promising a radical, regionalist agenda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you wanted to design a drinking game based on analysis of Andy Burnham\u2019s campaign in the Makerfield by-election, mention of the phrase \u201cKing of the North\u201d would be the prompt to get everyone absolutely wasted. An extra sip of beer when KOTN is prefixed by \u201cso-called\u201d, three sips for \u201cself-styled\u201d, and a shot of tequila when it\u2019s delivered in a patronising northern accent<\/a> by a centrist comedian belatedly discovering what authentocracy<\/a> means. On the one hand, skewering Burnham\u2019s man-of-the-people regionalist schtick is fair enough. It\u2019s incumbent on commentators to pour scorn on the airs and graces of our putative leaders (Though I was often tempted, through endless sneering over the last few weeks about Burnham\u2019s \u201cvibes-based<\/a>\u201d and \u201cegocentric<\/a>\u201d approach, to scream: have any of you ever met\u2026 a politician?<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while healthy scepticism about performative bluff is all well and good, it\u2019s important to note that Burnham\u2019s investment in what might be called the Idea of the North is no mere PR gambit. Indeed, the Makerfield saga \u2013 and the Burnhamite rise to power that seems certain to follow from it \u2013 is surely the most significant event in the history of British regionalism since the fabled collapse of the Red Wall in the 2019 general election. Can we sift through the professional northernisms and their parodies to uncover a more serious side to Burnham\u2019s regional bluster, one that bears profoundly on questions of devolution, identity, and popular sovereignty?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2192 Read the full piece O burnhamismo tem a ver com a restaura\u00e7\u00e3o da soberania?<\/a>, publicado pela The New Statesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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