Rodney Eric Bainbridge Atkinson (born 18 February 1947) is a British academic, political and economic commentator, journalist, author and businessman. He is the older brother of the comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson.
He runs his own commercial property business based in the North East of England. His 23 year old website freenations.net contains over 400 articles on political economy, Nationism, geopolitics and the campaign for withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.
In 2000, he lost the UKIP leadership election, by 16 votes, to Jeffrey TitfordMEP. Atkinson left UKIP shortly afterwards, along with 200 supporters, accusing the then party chairman Nigel Farage MEP and the Eurosceptic journalist Christopher Booker of conducting a "dirty tricks" campaign against him. He also accused the party of being "infiltrated by extremists".[3]
In 1994, Atkinson co-authored the book Treason at Maastricht – the destruction of the Nation State, with Norris McWhirter.[4]
Other work includes the books Government against the People (1985), The Emancipated Society (1988), The Failure of the State (1989), Your country Your Democracy – the Threat from the European Union (1990), Europe's Full Circle (1997), Fascist Europe Rising (2001) and And into the Fire – fascist elements in post war Europe and the Development of the European Union (2013).
Bibliography
"Making Monetarism Work - institutional distortions in the economy", Bow Group Paper, October 1981
"The South Molton Declaration", The Lantern, January 2001
"The Democratic and legal Rights of the British people", speech, Leicester, 15 March 2001
Interview for the Bulgarian journal NIE, vol 6, June 2002
"German Europe and the nation State'", speech to Polish Slav Committee, Warsaw, Poland, October 2002
"Corporatism and the end of traditional capitalism", UK Conservatism website, 16 May 2002
"Who are the real Fascists in Europe?", Freedom Today, March 2003
"Germany, Iraq and the European Union", The Philadelphia Trumpet, May 2003
"Obituary" contribution for Norris McWhirter, Times Online, 30 April 2004
"Bean Blackadder and the European Union", The Salisbury Review, December 2004
"The Tories, Choice and the Health Service", UK Conservatism website, June 2004
"Essay in response to a review of Fascist Europe Rising", The South Slav Journal, summer 2005
"The British Declaration of Independence", Right Now!, March 2006
"Fascist Europe Rising", speech to autumn conference Protestant Reformation Society, August 2006
"This Town just isn't big enough. The Landlord and Tenant Act 1954", Estate's Gazette, January 2007
"Short appreciation of Sir Alfred Sherman", Byronica, September 2007
"Totalitarians who founded the European Union", speech at public meeting, Houses of Parliament, 26 February 2008
"The Road to Northern Rock", The Salisbury Review, spring 2008
"The Global Financial Disaster", The Salisbury Review, autumn 2008
"The Separation of Lending Banks from Investment Banks – the Case for Glass Steagall type legislation'", evidence to the Inquiry into Banking Reform by the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee
"Lending Banks and Investment Banks", evidence to the Independent Banking Commission chaired by Sir John Vickers.
"Edmund Burke by Dennis O'Keeffe", book review. Economic Affairs, June 2011
"What is Fascism?", British Church newspaper, August 2011
"German Dominance in Europe'", Eurofacts, 16 December 2011
"Constitutional Losses and Repatriating Powers from the EU", address to The Lords and Commons Better Off Out Group, 18 January 2012
"British and American Corporatism destroy democracy", Eurofacts, August 2012
And into the Fire - fascist elements in post war Europe and the development of the European Union (2013) GM Books, Los Angeles, Hong Kong ISBN9781882383-34-4
"The Emancipated Society" and "The Fascist Origins of the EU", two lectures at the University of Krasnodar, Russia, February 2016
"Brexit: "Necessary for Saving democracy in Europe and stopping war", Russia Today, 3 June 2016
"May's Irish Myth blows up Brexit", British Church newspaper, 22 December 2017
"Can the UK learn from Russia?", Eurofacts, 9 February 2018
"Germany profits as Greece collapses", Eurofacts, 15 June 2018
"The First Marxist Conservative Government in History", UKIPDaily, 4 parts 13–19 June 2018
"IMF (again) makes a fool of itself over Brexit", Eurofacts, 19 October 2018
"Theresa May's Brexit Surrender", Eurofacts, 14 December 2018
"The Benefits of a true Brexit", British Church newspaper, 15 March 2019