Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick clashed with a Sky News presenter as he repeatedly failed to explain what he meant by “English identity”. In an article for the Daily Mail, the former ...

There are a number of reasons why this is true, chiefly that it is harder to get an accurate sample of respondents at the ...

Paul Kingsnorth responds to Mark Perryman's call in Breaking up Britain for a progressive English identity. ‘What is Englishness?' is a question I have always studiously avoided answering. I can't ...

"The complaint that the English are not allowed to be patriotic "flies in the face of a considerable body of evidence that a growing number of English people have, in the last two decades, begun to ...

For some years, Labour has struggled to win support among key voters who identify as English. One reason may be because voters who identify as strongly English are more likely to see Labour as a ...

Being English 'is about fish and chips' Young people are far less likely to feel proud to be English than older generations, a major survey for the BBC reveals. Eight out of 10 people in England ...

Andy Murray’s historic victory at Wimbledon sparked instant debate about whether his was a win for Scotland or Britain. Clearly, First Minister Alex Salmond was in little doubt, as he akwardly ...

I was intrigued by Chris Bowers’ recent post A slogan you might not expect from the Lib Dems and by the comments on it. It revolves around the question of whether a national identity is or can be ...

I READ Melanie Reid's article (March 15) on English identity shortly after returning from speaking at schools in Jersey, where a majority of the children seemed to identify themselves as "southern ...

‘We need to talk more about England, and what we want it to mean today, for more people to feel included’ (Getty Images) St George has not always been the most feted of patron saints – many people ...

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