Give Nike a Red Card

Mar 23, 2024 by

by Jack Watson, Daily Sceptic: Nike has sparked outrage this week after it announced the men’s England football team’s official 2024 home kit. If you thought wokery could not get any worse, it just has. The new shirt features a flag on...

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I know why Britain is so miserable – we’re not allowed to be proud of our country

Mar 14, 2024 by

by Allison Pearson, Telegraph: “For the first time I feel somehow That it isn’t going to last… And that will be England gone,  The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, The guildhalls, the carved choirs. There’ll be books; it will linger on In...

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A Christian Democracy

Sep 6, 2023 by

By Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand: During the recent break in posting we visited Budapest, and were left with some remarkable memories. A beautiful city with a terrible past, and not only from the dreadful Soviet days. Below the...

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The matter of Britain

May 20, 2023 by

by Sebastian Millbank, The Critic: Nationhood is a harder question for the British than for most countries, because we are not one nation, but several — England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Add to this the crown dependencies of...

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How sad to see the British Council succumb to anti-patriotic self-loathing

Jun 27, 2022 by

by Toby Young, Mail +: Few will be surprised to learn  that an organisation funded by the British taxpayer once issued a ‘non-discriminatory’ language guide that urged its staff not to refer to ‘Brits’, or use the phrase ‘the Queen’s...

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The Church of Englishness

Aug 10, 2021 by

by Martin Sewell, Archbishop Cranmer: Upon reading Archbishop Stephen Cotterell’s remarks on English identity in the Telegraph, I was reminded of the time I was reading the Law Society Gazette whilst waiting for a court case to be called....

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