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# Englishness not so beleaguered
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/englishness-not-so-beleaguered/
- Published: 2008-04-23T21:04:19.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:40:13.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** Just in time to slip it in during St Georges Day, take a look at [Patrick Wright's meditation](http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/real%5Fengland%5Freflections%5Fon%5Fbroadway%5Fmarket) on the revival of Englishness and whether it can find a form that is not "beleaguered"

Even in peacetime, being English can feel like a perpetual Dunkirk, in which everything that is valued is polarised against "encroaching" developments that promise only nullification and destruction

Not any more? It's a well referenced article with all of Patrick's fine sense of history and detail that opens in East London's Broadway Market.