Tom Slater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Sep
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The thing which gets much more thorny is is there a sort of cultural dimension to Englishness?
Set aside
from Britishness in which people can buy into.
And it certainly seems like even if we're taking
poor old Rishi Sunak out of the frame who's been kind of thrust into this discussion.
It's clear that certainly when you poll
people in Britain, people in England, you see large majorities in essentially every ethnic group, although there are differences which we could get into, who say that it's not an exclusively ethnic
category that someone who is born and bred in the country, who um takes upon its values, sensibilities, humour, whatever, is clearly of this nation in a way that someone who might share their direct ancestry isn't.
To put it bluntly, Rishi Sunak is culturally of England in a way that Narendra Modi obviously isn't, which is something that clearly bears mentioning.
And I think in the same way that there are many people who have popped up in this discussion, people who are English by ancestry, who feel a sense of loss and theft and a sense of affrontery by being told that they do not exist as a group.
There is also people who might be second generation, who have only ever really known this country, who have, by any reasonable definitions, integrated into it, who also feel like they're being denied something if they are told that they are not.
English in
In some way, shape, or form, you know.
And and again to take I suppose Rishi out of the equation, I think it's sort of figure like I know Morrissey, who is someone who I think is a quintessentially English pop cultural figure, but is the child of Irish immigrants.
And I think there's something which there is clearly kind of blurry lines here which definitely need to be addressed.
Um and one example that I did blur but
point and also I think that the kind of hang up about even acknowledging ethnicity as a thing is something which predominates amongst well to do white English people more so than it does ethnic minorities.
And actually if you look at the that polling reference, more in common is the one that I've seen most recently.
Um, out of British Asians, blah blah British, and white British, the group that is least likely to say um that ethnicity has nothing to do with it is British Asians.
Still a majority, but it's a reduced majority.
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