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Englishness not so beleaguered

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Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Just in time to slip it in during St Georges Day, take a look at Patrick Wright's meditation 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.

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