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Culture wars aren't a distraction, they're a battle over everything

For some, the ‘war on woke’ is just common sense. But they’ll find that the pillars holding up England’s traditional hierarchies are rotting. Part one of four

By Adam Ramsay
Culture wars aren't a distraction, they're a battle over everything
Union Jacks, statues, street names and war memorials form an edifice of some conservatives’ culture | Colin McPherson / Alamy Stock Photo
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“People sometimes ask why I make such a noise about our flag, history and culture,” wrote Lee Anderson, Conservative MP for Ashfield, on Facebook this summer. “Well, it’s not just me. I’m part of the Common Sense Group at work, which has over 50 Tory MPs...”

“One of our aims is to promote our country as the best nation on earth, and fight back in the Culture War that [is] trying to erase our past by pulling down statues, renaming streets, and the desecration of war memorials.

“I happen,” he wrote, “to be very proud to be British and an English man.”

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