Historian Richard Weight called for a progressive nationalism that emphasised the hybridity of English identity, noting that "there's a hyphen in Anglo-Saxon."
Historian?! What a twit. The vast majority of us know the English aren't a "pure race". What about challenging the racist "Celtic" twaddle emanating from Scotland, Wales and Cornwall? No hyphen in "Celtic", and no sense of reality, either. And by the way: the 'Anglo-Saxons' never called themselves that, it's a retrospective naming, and they were, according to logic and DNA studies, a minority in England anyway. There were other people and ways forming England and Englishness - which we did and do call our country and its people. Even more influences now in the modern day. How's that for inclusivity?
Unfortunately, pandering to racists and historic victimhood nonsense in Scotland and Wales by the so-called 'UK' government means that the largest and most diverse UK country, England, gets the worst treatment, via the Barnett Formula (loathed by its late creator, Lord Joel Barnett), the West Lothian Question and asymmetric national devolution in general.
How's that for racism?
This e-mail from a Scots Nat on the comments thread made us smile:
The current fiction is that Britain is a unitary state and always has been. Once England and Englishness are acknowledged as a nation and a nationality Scotland and Wales have to get the same treatment. Currently they are considered and treated as provinces of a unitary Anglo-Britain.
But they have been recognised as something very special and exclusive those eight million souls in Scotland and Wales combined - there is asymmetric national devolution and England doesn't exist, dear - it's artificial regions, ruled by a Scottish Raj. It's a Scoto-Britain if anything. You can even die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland (subsidised by the English).
What will it take to make some people pull their heads out of their backsides?
This e-mail from a Scots Nat on the comments thread made us smile:
The current fiction is that Britain is a unitary state and always has been. Once England and Englishness are acknowledged as a nation and a nationality Scotland and Wales have to get the same treatment. Currently they are considered and treated as provinces of a unitary Anglo-Britain.
But they have been recognised as something very special and exclusive those eight million souls in Scotland and Wales combined - there is asymmetric national devolution and England doesn't exist, dear - it's artificial regions, ruled by a Scottish Raj. It's a Scoto-Britain if anything. You can even die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland (subsidised by the English).
What will it take to make some people pull their heads out of their backsides?
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