Britishness is "best understood as an identity....

[Johnny Canuck3]

Mungo Melvin

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Michael Gove

 

[brogdale]

Michael Gove

 

[Yossarian]

Ian Paisley

 

[Yossarian]

Ian Brown

 

[Yossarian]

Ian Huntley

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

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Sorry...did I get there too soon?

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Seth McFarlane

 

[Treacle Toes]

Whomever guessed Orwell is/are right.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Whomever guessed Orwell is/are right.

Stop wrecking our fun!

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

PG Wodehouse

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Stephen Fry

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Oliver Cromwell

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Frank Sidebottom

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Georgie Porgie

 

[treelover]

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yup, surprised maybe because imo its sounds like Orwell

 

[treelover]

I quite like this. It has some of the warmth and openness that people found in the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony. The author of the paragraph is Michael Gove. And how British is it of me to give him the credit for that?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/14/only-valuing-britain-means-to-be-british

Article by Frank Cotrell Boyce.

 

[JTG]

Was it treelover?

 

[Cheesypoof]

Are you viewing "Britain" and "England" as the same thing?

Yes, i know theres a difference and when I saw the thread title it occured to me straight away. Then i thought about what is best about the British, and music still came out trumps.

 

[Blagsta]

Yer mum!

 

[discokermit]

oliphant chuckerbutty.

 

[discokermit]

basil brush

 

[discokermit]

ken dodd'd dad's dog

 

[eatmorecheese]

Bob Carolgees through the medium of Spit the dog.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Barry Scott

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Peter Andre

 

[discokermit]

barry grant out of brookside

 

[butchersapron]

Who wrote this? I think posters will be surprised.

Jesus, what suffocating back-slappery. I take it that you agree wth Gove and this is the point of the thread? Gove always covers himself with such preening faux-intellectualism in order to baffle mugs. It's why he has a pic of lenin next t thatcher on his office room wall.

 

[discokermit]

edson arantes do nascimento

 

[discokermit]

eusabio da silva ferreira