UKianism
The British variant of Ruscism: an ideology that wraps itself in the Union Jack, nostalgia for empire, and a conviction that British exceptionalism justifies exceptional treatment. UKianism champions Brexit as liberation, dismisses European human rights courts as interference, and lionizes imperial figures while downplaying colonial atrocities. It shares with Ruscism a victimhood narrative (the EU, immigrants, “woke” culture), a cult of military history, and a desire to restore a lost greatness. It often manifests in tabloid headlines about “taking back control” and in nostalgia for a Britain that never quite existed.
Example: “He insisted that the British Empire had brought ‘civilization’ to half the world—textbook UKianism, where imperial nostalgia serves as a license for present-day arrogance.”
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