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I quite like that perspective. Interesting, thank you.

No really, it does further supplemented with some patronising but still nonsense.

You sound a little bit too virtuous, almost as if you have no understanding of where those with English blood might be coming from?

it was a very clumsy and hardly comparable example you cited though. I think that's where you went wrong.

don't worry about. Misread tone.

sorry, that question was aimed at Neville (i.e. He assumes I've never travelled or lived abroad...which I have)

It's interesting to quote N. Hill. We do seem to celebrate via other cultures. That's partly why I aked what it is to be English IF you don't have another culture within immediate ancestry. Everyone I know and hold dear that has eg Scottish, Indian, Polish etc parents or grandparents or great...

How patronising.

But you can argue that for almost every other European country inc other parts of the (for now) United Kingdom and yet they do have stronger defined identities today. Right now. Currently. England is very diverse and tribal which makes it hard to define in any unified sense. Maybe that's our...

What is it in you view, to be English these days? nb: not British, that's on its way out if not in the Skip already! Wales, Ireland and Scotland all have strong, confident sense of identity but ours appears less easy to define other than perhaps to be English is to embrace all other cultures...

Because it was a war in recent memory and he's leaning towards 'the side' most people view as the evil ones. Ow and he's living and earning a crust in the country which fought against McGuinness. Surely you're able to understand this? And why there's therefore a bit of controversy about Duffy...

I agree. Probably time for the English to forge a new identity too. Not sure what it is to be English anymore a side from self loathing, looking to our past and embracing every other culture but our own. Curious times we live in!

Duffy ain't the brightest then is he?!

Goal! You fell for my trap. But anyway don't you think there's a difference between NSC and Twitter? A major difference? Let's see if you can work it out :)

Why do people feel the need to tell everyone their opinion on Twitter? Narcissism at its very worse. And they then complain of 'abuse'...