Billy Bragg, Caroline Lucas and Kojo Koram among those encouraging people to share cultural artefacts ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Were it not for the tendency among some historians to belittle and even deny the idea of nationality, the present ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection, is just one of the rightwing politicians to recently ...
It would be mad, not to mention rude, if I were now to turn to someone called Dave Smith and say: ‘I’m as English as you, pal.’ Am I English? This rather navel-gazing stickler whacked me again last ...
Last week, Rishi Sunak went on Nick Robinson’s podcast Political Thinking and laughed off a question about whether he considers himself English. “Of course I’m English,” the former prime minister said ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Umbro’s new exhibition is being hailed as an illustration of how the concept of ‘Englishness’ is being ‘constantly revised’ credit ...
British researchers announced this spring that they had used a mathematical formula to determine the ideal human voice. The well-known actors who came closest to having the perfect male voice, they ...
Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics, University of Southampton Matt Goodwin, the Reform ...