The idea of Englishness and a national identity | Politics
The flag of St George on Eston Nab, near Middlesbrough, on 1 January 2021. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images if Labour wants to foster a progressive Englishness, as urged by Andy Beckett (Brexit may spell the end of the tabloid version of Englishness. Can Labour redefine it?, 8 January), it will be pushing at an increasingly open door. Over the past decade, contrary to popular myth, Englishness as seen by the English has become markedly less defined by race, or by fears about immigration and diversity. That this more liberal Englishnes...