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Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick clashed with a Sky News presenter as he repeatedly failed to explain what he meant by “English identity”. In an article for the Daily Mail, the former ...

Inspired by a Zadie Smith quote, a new campaign aims to “stretch the flag” of St George. By John Denham It is the English, rather than the British, whose votes are taking us out of the EU. This was ...

How English do you feel? Views from Hackney and Boston Why doesn't England have its own national anthem and why are the English obsessed with tea? These are some of the questions our readers asked ...

IN 1924, speaking on St George’s Day, the then prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, gave thanks that for once he could refer to England “without some fellow at the back of the room shouting out: ‘Britain!

It's ironic that in the current Brexit debate it's English, not British, identity that's increasing. The Britishness that unionists in Scotland and Northern Ireland seek to hold onto is increasingly ...

While the Irish national identity took another millennium to undergo the same formational the English principally defined itself by creating a dynamic between two peoples whose core identities were, ...