George Orwell defined patriotism as: "devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people".
I am concerned that England as a nation is fast disappearing, our nationality subsumed in "Britishness", while Britishness itself is disappearing into the European Union. I am interested in "Englishness" as it used to be - not nationalistic, but patriotic, without making too much of a fuss about it. We are English and should be proud of it.
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