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The Union is Over Already – But ‘Britain’ is Still Keeping England Down - marksimpson.com
by Mark Simpson (Guardian Unlimited, April 8, 2007) It's over. 'Britain' and 'Britishness' are politically moribund terms. The proof? Scottish-flavoured New Labour's recent laughable attempts to resurrect "Britishness" as an "inclusive" post-Imperial identity. Not so much because they flopped as the fact that Britannia was now such an empty vessel that she could be so