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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

Paul Chilton
Affiliation:
University of Warwick

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Adorno, Theodor, 8, 83, 105
Altemeyer, Bob, 106
Alternative for Germany, 26
ambiguity, ambiguous, 1, 16, 43, 53, 55, 73, 87, 101, 104, 138, 157, 182
amygdala, 19, 148, 149, 162, 168
Anderson, Benedict, 86, 87
anglophone, 49, 66, 75, 81
Anglo-Saxonism, 88, 89, 133
Anti-Federalist League (AFL), 127, 128, 129, 130
apartheid, 108
Applebaum, Anne, 106
Arendt, Hannah, 11, 105
Aristotle, 10, 62, 64, 77
arrows, 142, 143, 144, 145, 161
Article 50, 70, 71, 182, 183
Athens, Athenian
and democracy, 9
and the demagogues, 8, 147
and the demos, 62, 63
and the sophists, 9
authoritarian personality, 105, 106, 152
authoritarianism/authoritarian, 27, 28, 94, 95, 105, 106, 134, 152, 169, 172, 174, 177, 179
Ayer, A. J., 1
Ball, James, 11, 14, 139, 157, 158, 159
Banks, Arron, 68, 158, 176, 177
Bannon, Steve, 121, 122, 177
Barrès, Maurice, 28, 29
Bermann, Sylvie, 170
bilingualism, 44, 47, 48
Birmingham, 110, 111, 114, 123, 133, 139
Blair, Tony, 132
Blunkett, David, 46, 47, 48
Bodin, Jean, 66, 74
Bolton, Henry, 87, 88
borders, boundaries, 4, 7, 19, 23, 24, 35, 39, 41, 43, 46, 51, 69, 76, 79, 86, 92, 121, 132, 140, 144, 145, 159, 161, 167, 171
Boston (UK), 32
brain, 1, 15, 18, 19, 20, 73, 145, 147152, 156, 161, 162, 164, 166, 168, 169, 177
brain imaging, 19, 149
Brexit Party, 26, 44, 61, 71, 72, 82, 92, 93, 128, 174
Britain First, 118, 119
Britain Stronger in Europe, 132, 177
British Empire, 8591, 107, 108, 110, 120
British National Party (BNP), 27, 113, 118, 126, 127, 128, 130
British Nationality Act, 91, 107, 108, 113, 114, 175
Brixton riot, 114
Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), 26
Bruges Group, 127
Buchanan, George, 66, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 173, 174
bullshit, 11, 158
Burke, Edmund, 79
Burnage (Manchester), 115
Cambridge Analytica, 176
Cameron, David, 4, 36, 47, 4954, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 91, 99, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 138, 141, 146, 181, 182
Bloomberg speech, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 91, 128, 136
Camus, Renaud, 29, 121
Canovan, Margaret, 4, 5, 61, 65, 81, 93
Carney, Mark, 131
Cassam, Quassim, 8, 9, 11, 158
Chilton, Brendan, 97
Clegg, Nick, 58
clusivity, 43
cognition
cognitive linguistics, 19, 25, 86
cognitive science, 18
conceptual blend, 101, 145
conservative, 4, 20, 25, 28, 29, 47, 49, 52, 55, 56, 59, 65, 70, 79, 85, 90, 97, 99, 101, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 119, 121, 122, 123, 125, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 138, 152, 163, 172, 182, 183
Conservative Party, 4, 28, 37, 46, 54, 55, 59, 60, 101, 108, 110, 111, 113, 122, 127, 132, 146, 172
Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond (EKRE)), 26
conspiracy theory, 29
control, loss of, 123, 167, 168
Cox, Jo, 118, 119
Cromwell, Oliver, 75, 76
Crosby, Lynton, 37, 38, 136
Cummings, Dominic, 157, 158, 164, 166, 168, 176
customs union, 153, 170, 183
Dale, Iain, 156
Damasio, Antonio, 151, 152
Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti (DF)), 26
de Benoist, Alain, 29, 30, 31
deictics (deixis), 43, 145
demagocracy [sic], 178
demagogue, demagoguery, 121, 24, 25, 35, 40, 42, 61, 63, 64, 78, 80, 101, 103, 106, 109, 125, 126, 128, 131, 135, 137, 138, 145, 147169, 170184
democracy, democratic
decline of, 64, 106, 169, 170184
direct democracy, 8, 10, 29, 71, 72, 79, 93, 95, 96, 98, 101
representative democracy, 7, 8, 26, 29, 59, 65, 67, 71, 72, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 134, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182
discourse, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 36, 39, 40, 41, 44, 46, 50, 52, 54, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 72, 73, 75, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 91, 101, 103, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 136, 146, 150, 152, 156, 159, 160, 162, 163, 172, 173, 174
dog whistle, 116, 124, 133, 162, 163, 175
doublethink, 180
Duncan Smith, Iain, 119, 137, 173
economy, economic, 3, 6, 12, 15, 20, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 42, 45, 54, 80, 83, 84, 89, 90, 100, 106, 107, 108, 112, 114, 115, 116, 123, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 153, 157, 164, 167, 170, 171, 172, 176, 177, 178, 181, 183
education, 1, 8, 9, 11, 33, 63, 71, 88, 89, 105, 119, 121, 172, 173, 175
‘elite’, 5, 7, 12, 29, 39, 55, 65, 67, 71, 72, 80, 83, 85, 89, 98, 101, 107, 109, 111, 116, 119, 125, 132, 134, 163, 172
Elliott, Matthew, 176
Ellsberg, Daniel, 11
emotion
emotion triggers, 3, 7, 57, 102, 147, 150, 151, 167
emotional valence, 162
empire, 10, 22, 41, 62, 103, 109, 130, 173, 175
British, 8591, 107, 108, 110, 120
Empire Windrush, 91, 107
English Civil War, 69, 72, 75
English Defence League (EDL), 27, 121, 126, 127
English language, 29, 30, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 80, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89, 101, 116, 120, 121, 149, 152, 164
Enlightenment, 8, 51, 66, 77, 102, 120
‘establishment’, 6, 7, 12, 13, 23, 30, 56, 65, 71, 74, 78, 79, 83, 101, 107, 113, 114, 131, 132, 138, 163, 171, 172
ethnocentrism, ethnocentric, 4, 5, 6, 59, 103106, 109, 111, 113, 121, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 136, 152
Europe of Nations and Freedom (Europe des nations et des libertés), 26
European Commission, 95, 127, 138
European Research Group (ERG), 49, 90, 119, 132, 134, 136
Euroscepticism, Eurosceptic, 26, 28, 49, 50, 51, 53, 56, 58, 84, 99, 101, 122, 126, 129, 131, 132, 136, 146, 172, 173, 177
‘experts’, 9, 11, 65, 83, 98, 131, 133, 134, 147, 158, 172
Facebook, 27, 28, 176
face-threatening acts, 15, 52
fact-check, 12, 159
‘fake news’, 39, 178
Farage, Nigel, 8, 28, 44, 46, 47, 5460, 61, 71, 72, 82, 83, 100, 112, 121, 127, 128, 129, 152, 158, 160, 176, 177
Faye, Guillaume, 29
fear, 3, 7, 9, 19, 20, 22, 24, 36, 38, 40, 47, 49, 63, 76, 77, 80, 92, 103146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 161, 162, 164169, 174, 177, 178, 187
Ferguson, Niall, 30
Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset (PS), 26
Flemish Interest (Vlaams Belang (VB)), 26
Ford, Robert, 25, 45, 105, 106, 109, 111, 112, 113, 123, 130, 152
Fox, Claire, 72
Fox, Liam, 90
frame, 6, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 29, 39, 40, 43, 50, 58, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 71, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 86, 87, 98, 100, 101, 144, 161, 173, 177
Frankfurt, Harry G., 11, 158
free movement, 35, 36, 39, 40, 104, 134, 139
Freedom and Direct Democracy (Svoboda a přímá demokracie (SPD)), 26
Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ)), 26
French Revolution, 68, 78, 79
Fromm, Erich, 105
Gallie, W.B., 61
Generation Identity, 27, 28, 121
Glorious Revolution, 68, 69, 76
Gove, Michael, 139, 140, 145, 154
Grayling, A. C., 70, 76, 78, 86, 95
Great Replacement, 29, 118, 121
Grice, Herbert Paul, 16
cooperative principle, 16
maxims, 16, 17
Griffin, Nick, 126, 127
Hague, William, 132, 133
Heath, Edward, 110, 111, 123
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 31
Hobbes, Thomas, 66, 67, 68, 73, 173, 174
Hogg, Quintin, 70
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 31
identitarianism, 4, 22, 25, 2631, 41, 42, 46, 50, 172
identitarian movements, 23, 27, 31, 121, 172
identity
identity conservative, 25, 105, 106, 109, 129, 130, 131, 132, 152, 163, 172
identity liberal, 25, 105, 152, 172
national identity, 4, 22, 23, 26, 31, 43, 50, 51, 56, 57, 58, 60, 68, 85, 86, 87, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107, 113, 126, 172, 173, 175
Identity and Democracy movement, 26
Identity Movement (Identitäre Bewegung), 26, 27
if clause, 91
image schema
container, 18, 19, 25, 39, 51, 52, 57, 69, 145, 161, 162
force, 18, 19, 145, 161, 162, 164
path, 18, 19, 112, 145, 161
immigration
and EU, 3, 26, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 105, 113, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 157, 164
low immigration, 32, 33, 34
implicature, implicate, 16, 17, 150, 151, 155, 156, 162
Institute for Fiscal Studies, 155
Institute of Race Relations, 117
Isenberg, Nancy, xi, 20, 148, 149, 150, 185
Islam, 29, 30, 87, 89, 120, 121
Jackson, Andrew, 81
Jamaica, 91, 107
Javanbakht, Arash, 147
Jefferson, Thomas, 77, 78, 89
Jewish, Jews, 115, 117, 160
Jobbik, 46
Johnson, Boris, 8, 21, 28, 70, 72, 90, 92, 96, 97, 132, 140, 154, 157, 171, 174, 179, 182, 183
Jordan, Colin, 108
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 33
Kassam, Raheem, 121, 122
Kopytowska, Monika, 117
Labour Party, 46, 133
Labour Leave, 97
language, 121, 23, 24, 29, 31, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 70, 82, 86, 87, 88, 89, 98, 104, 113, 116, 121, 122, 133, 136, 145, 147, 148, 150, 152, 157, 160, 162, 163, 164, 178
Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość), 27
Lawrence, Stephen, 116, 117, 119, 121, 175
League (Lega Nord, or more fully, Lega Nord per l’Indipendenza della Padonia), 26
League of Empire Loyalists, 108
Leave.EU, 9, 103, 119, 125, 158, 176, 177, 178
Les Identitaires, 26, 29
Levellers, 75, 76
Liberal Democrats, x, 49, 128, 134
lies, lying
barefaced lie, 141, 180
noble lie, 120, 180
Littman, Gisèle. see Ye’or, Bat
Locke, John, 66, 77, 78
London, 49, 89, 111, 116, 119, 121, 122, 135
Maastricht Treaty, 56, 104, 127
Macdonald, Ian, 115
Macpherson, William, 116
Macpherson Report, 116
Madison, James, 78
Mair, Thomas, 118
Major, John, 112
mandate
imperative mandate, 94, 95, 96, 181, 182
mandatory referendum, 97, 101
maps, 40, 120, 142, 144
Maurras, Charles, 28, 29
May, Theresa, 70, 71, 91, 92, 95, 96, 135, 136, 140, 182, 183
metaphor, metaphorical
concept of, 40, 86
flood, 41, 161
flow, 41, 161
human body, 46
infection, 46
invasion, 117, 177
parasite, 46
poison, 46
swamp, 112, 113
swarm, 41
Monday Club, 108, 119
monolingualism, monolingual, 31, 4449, 60
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, 77, 78
Mordaunt, Penny, 139, 140, 141, 145
Mosley, Oswald, 108
Müller, Jan-Werner, 82, 94, 95, 182
multilingualism, multilingual, 31, 44, 46, 48, 89, 123
Murray, Douglas, 30, 121
Muslim, 29, 127
nation, 2, 4, 7, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 36, 38, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 68, 69, 83, 84, 8591, 92, 94, 95, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 110, 113, 114, 122, 123, 126, 129, 132, 138, 140, 141, 145, 146, 152, 154, 157, 158, 162, 165, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 179
National Front (France). see National Rally
National Front (UK), 108, 113, 114, 115, 119
National Rally (Rassemblement national (RN)), 26, 28
nationalism, nationalist, 4, 24, 29, 31, 42, 45, 51, 55, 58, 59, 60, 84, 85, 87, 89, 99, 100, 101, 113, 114, 117, 120, 121, 122, 124, 126, 129, 132, 134, 136, 146, 173, 175
Nazism, Nazi, 24, 46, 47, 51, 105, 135, 159, 160, 175
neo-Nazi, 108, 113, 117, 118, 163
neural networks, 148
New Labour, 129, 130
news media
BBC, x, 38, 44, 70, 72, 92, 100, 137, 138, 140, 141, 142, 159, 160
Breitbart News, 122
Channel 4, 38
Daily Express, 38, 39, 48, 96, 139
Daily Mail, 36, 38, 39, 40, 49, 71, 91, 116, 137
Daily Mirror, 38
Daily Star, 38
Daily Star Sunday, 38
Daily Telegraph, 38, 49
Financial Times, 38
Guardian, x, 32, 38, 46, 48, 82, 110, 119, 131, 135, 139, 179
Independent, x, 38, 58, 115
ITV, 38
Lincolnshire Reporter, 71
Mail on Sunday, 38
New Statesman, 38
Observer, 38
Sky, 38
sp!ked [sic], 71, 72
Spectator, 38, 157, 166
Sun, 38, 39
Sunday Express, 38
Sunday Telegraph, 38
Sunday Times, 38
TalkRadio [sic], 87
Times, 38, 114, 131
Vice News, 38
NHS, 136, 138, 139, 142, 145, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 164, 167, 171, 179
Norgrove, David, 179
Northern Ireland Protocol, 171
Norwich poster, 44, 46, 60
Notting Hill, 108, 109
Nottingham, 108, 109
Nouvelle Droite, 29
ochlocracy, 63, 64, 65, 76, 78, 79
Office for Budget Responsibility, 170
oligarchy, 64, 65, 178
Operation Vaken, 135
Orbán, Viktor, 8, 27, 65, 121
Orwell, George, 1, 2, 3, 81, 180
passive construction, 18
Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West). see Pegida
Pegida, 27, 121
people, the people
the British people, 4, 26, 44, 49, 53, 54, 85102, 123, 141, 177, 182
the common people, 61, 65, 7384
contract with, 92, 93, 174
mandate of the people, 9499, 101. see also imperative mandate
ordinary people, 6, 61, 8084, 85, 102, 152, 172
will of the people, 6, 61, 78, 9194, 95, 96, 100, 101, 174, 181, 182
Plato, 10, 62, 64, 74, 77, 120, 180
Plutarch, 10
Polybius, 63, 64, 65, 77, 79
populism, 4, 58, 9, 11, 28, 29, 50, 61, 64, 67, 71, 72, 75, 83, 84, 85, 95, 102, 103, 109, 122
national populism, 28, 50, 61, 84, 85, 102, 103, 122
post-truth, 1013, 158, 178180, 183
Powell, Enoch
‘rivers of blood’ speech, 110, 111, 113, 117, 118, 122, 130, 149, 150, 152, 161, 185, 186, 187
and Euroscepticism, 122
Powellism, 112, 113118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 129, 175
presupposition, presuppose, 16, 91, 133, 151, 156, 166, 167
‘project fear’, 38, 132
pronouns, 15, 52, 59, 60
proroguing of parliament, 14
Putin, Vladimir, 174, 177
Race Relations Act, 110
racism, racist, 4, 5, 22, 44, 46, 59, 88, 103106, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 126, 128, 133, 146, 150, 151, 152, 160, 163, 171, 175
Rainsborough, Thomas, 76
refugees, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 64, 104, 159, 167
relativism, relativist, 10, 12, 31, 158, 178
Resolution Foundation, 171
Robinson, Tommy, 27, 121, 127
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 81
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 28, 66, 78, 93, 173
Russell, Bertrand, x, 1
Saunders, Robert, 90
Scarman, Leslie, 114
Scarman Report, 114
schema, image schema
container, 18, 19, 25, 39, 51, 52, 57, 69, 145, 161, 162
force, 18, 19, 145, 161, 162, 164
path, 18, 19, 112, 145, 161
Schmitt, Carl, 24, 30
Scruton, Roger, 119, 120, 121
Searle, John, 14, 93
Self and Other, 19
Sellner, Martin, 27
Shaw, Martin, x, 116, 119, 141, 163, 171, 173, 174
Single market, 89, 92, 131, 153, 154, 157, 170, 173, 183
Sked, Alan, 127, 128, 129
Sleaford, 71
Snyder, Timothy, 179
Sobolewska, Maria, 25, 45, 105, 106, 109, 111, 113, 130, 152
social contract, 67, 77, 93, 94
social media, 2, 9, 117, 119, 124, 141, 144, 153, 169, 177
sovereignty, sovereign, 8, 10, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 50, 51, 61, 6672, 73, 75, 76, 77, 80, 86, 91, 92, 97, 105, 122, 123, 134, 161, 173174
speech acts
assertives, 14, 15, 153, 154
commissives (promise, pledge), 14, 15, 155, 156
face-threatening acts, 15, 52
threats, threaten, 14, 15
Stanley, Jason, 9
Stenner, Karen, 83, 106, 152
Stockport, 124
Straw, Jack, 116
Stuart, Gisela, 96
Suárez, Francisco, 66, 74
Syria, 36, 140, 144, 159
Telegram, 28
Thatcher, Margaret, 112, 113, 114, 155
they, them, their, theirs, 50, 54, 55, 56, 59, 104, 145
threat, 3, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 30, 36, 39, 41, 53, 56, 63, 69, 87, 91, 105, 106, 121, 138, 139, 141, 142, 145, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 160, 178
threat words, 148, 185186
Tice, Richard, 158
Tomlinson, Sally, x, 33, 34, 89, 107, 109, 115, 116
Townsend, John, 122, 133
Trades Union Congress, 108
Truman, Harry S., 81
Trump, Donald, 4, 8, 10, 158, 174, 177
truth claim, 15, 50
truth, truthfulness, 1, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 31, 35, 47, 120, 122, 138, 141, 146, 158, 178, 179, 180, 183
Turkey, Turkish, Turk, 26, 36, 39, 138146, 159, 161, 164, 177, 180
Tyndall, John, 113
typographical layout, 155
Ugandan Asians, 111, 113
Ukraine, 170
Ulster Unionist Party, 114, 123
Union Movement, 108
vigilance, 3, 8, 20, 24, 150, 161
Volk, das, 61, 65, 66, 67, 82, 93
Vote Leave, 9, 37, 39, 52, 90, 96, 103, 119, 125, 137, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144, 145, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 164, 166, 167, 168, 175, 176, 177, 178
Vox, 26
Wallace, Henry, 81
Walsall, 110
we, us, our, ours, 15, 43, 4460, 104, 145, 165
Westphalia, Peace of, 68
White Defence League, 108
Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 31
Wilders, Geert, 8, 30
Wilson, Harold, 123
Windrush scandal, 91, 136
Withdrawal Agreement, 97
Wodak, Ruth, x, 20, 24, 46, 51, 71, 86
Wolverhampton, 110, 111
Wren-Lewis, Simon, 131, 136, 137, 138
xenophobia, 3, 6, 28, 46, 64, 103109, 124, 126, 128, 129, 131, 134, 135, 136, 146, 174, 175
Xurious website, 117
Yaxley-Lennon, Stephen. see Robinson, Tommy
Ye’or, Bat, 30
YouTube, 28, 44, 117

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