Britishness

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• The trouble with Scotland

  
  Next Left — Authority: 575
  The Scottish national football team will have a new coach on Wednesday morning. Good luck to Craig Levein who, as Kevin McCarra reflects for The Guardian , he has a lot to do to restore Scottish fortunes to the time when they expected to be at major tournaments, qualifying for six of the seven World Cups from 1974 to ...
  2 days ago

• Dame Julie Andrews ‘considering US citizenship’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 22 (ANI): Veteran actress Dame Julie Andrews has revealed that she’s planning to take up US citizenship.The Mary Poppins star is married to American filmmaker Blake Edwards and divides her time between houses in Los Angeles and Switzerland, reports the Telegraph.In an interview to The Lady magazine, the ...
  2 days ago

• Starting action against the ONS regarding the 2011 Census

  
  Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values' — Authority: 103
  I’ve now enquired of the Equality and Human Rights Commission about the best course of action to take regarding what I consider to be the racially discriminatory aspects of the national-identity and ethnic-group questions in the 2011 Census for England and Wales (see last post). This was following a reply from the ...
  6 days ago

• Where to Buy Authentic Christmas Crackers in the USA – America

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 438
  One lovely British Christmas tradition is to pop a Christmas Cracker – a cylindrical fire cracker of sorts that has a small gift inside, a paper crown and some kind of joke. Last year was our first year with Christmas crackers and our family had a ton of fun cracking them open and laughing at each other wearing ...
  1 week ago

• Guest Post: Not the First English Eccentric

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 438
  Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Steve Graubart of ArtSpock . Of many things famously England, not least is a penchant throughout history to produce an ample supply of eccentrics. Since the number is too large to list them chronologically or alphabetically, the best way to handle the topic is ...
  1 week ago

• Non-British citizen

  
  nickhereandnow — Authority: 119
  I have no national loyalty whatever. It makes little difference to me whether Im British, Swedish, Namibian or Nepalese, as long as my lifes going well. So Im rather pleased I failed the Practice UK Citizenship Test by getting a mere 50%. Hardly surprising since the questions are so obscure and so irrelevant to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Correspondence with the ONS on the 2011 Census for England and Wales

  
  Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values' — Authority: 103
  Further to my previous post on this topic , I received the following reply to my complaint alleging racial discrimination in the way the national-identity and ethnic-group categories are structured in the proposed 2011 Census form for England and Wales: I have now replied in the following terms: 6 ...
  2 weeks ago

• British TV Preview: Save our Boozer – Show About Saving the Village Pub

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 438
  England can sometimes be a land of contradictions. While they have romantic ideals about their villages and living the ‘village life’ – shockingly many of England’s picturesque villages are slowly dying. It’s not uncommon for villages to be losing their local post office, shop or pub. And when those go – ...
  2 weeks ago

• Buying Brit: Trevor Sorbie

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 438
  Trevor Sorbie is unheard of in the States. Thus, every time a visitor to my home sees the product they are drawn to it. Where did you get this? Who makes it? I secretly gloat that I have things they don’t or that I’m the first to know brands one would only know if one lives in the U.K. or is an Anglophile. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Racial abuse in Swindon: I am ashamed to hear of this.

  
  Swindon Nationalists — Authority: 103
  We hear a lot on Nationalist websites about Black on White racial abuse and violent attack, because the mainstream media play it down. This episode though has just been brought  to my attention by my daughter. Her Black friend was walking down the street when some White idiots shouted abuse at her whilst driving ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gold Hill Gets a Weeding

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 438
  One of the most beautiful parts of Gold Hill is the abbey ruins that make up one side of it. The whole reason Shaftesbury exists is because of the founding of the abbey in the 14th century. The abbey was ‘dissolved’ by Henry the VIII during the Reformation and all that’s left is the old abbey walls and some ...
  3 weeks ago

• Behind you

  
  We're British, Innit — Authority: 91
  My piece on Chumbawamba, the luddites and pantomime is published in the Guardian today. All this talk of panto has made me think about my interview with the now sadly deceased (and, it must be said, mildly gin-scented) John Inman. He was known as the Don of pantomime when he was alive and, seemingly, you had to go ...
  3 weeks ago

• British history: the losers do some re-writing

  
  We're British, Innit — Authority: 91
  History, as they say, is written by the winners. So, in the industrial revolution that would be the bosses. I have been up in Leeds in the last week to interview the writers and performers in a new play-come-panto about the Luddites : industrial revolutionaries from the working class side of the argument who have ...
  4 weeks ago

• Buying Brit: Maltesers

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 438
  Maltesers Candy It was just a dash into a corner store to get a snack as one will do when on a trip. The bright red package caught my eye and I’d long been a fan of malted milk balls at home in the States. It only took one taste of Maltesers, however, for me to develop an addiction. As I’ve often found, the ...
  4 weeks ago

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