Faversham Stoa is a philosophy discussion group meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 7.30 to 9.30pm in the Britishness & Multiculturalism
What is Britishness and what are fundamental British values? A 'YouGov' survey for the Telegraph has found that Britons‘ sense of national identity depends far more on shared values and institutions than on nostalgia for warm beer and village cricket.
- Who cares about Britishness in Scotland?
- What does Britain and Britishness, of which Gordon Brown was banging on incessantly at the Labour Conference, actually mean?
- What is Britishness?
- The government is being asked to rethink what it means to be British by a new report examining the nation's ethnic mix. But everyone has their own definition.
- What is Britishness anyway?
- Apart from the sea, what keeps the British together? In a recent survey, 91% said it was the NHS that exemplified Britishness.
- The opportunity is with us again to be British and to be proud of it
- By Bill Deedes in the Telegraph -- 27/07/2005
- Ten core values of British Identity
- From The Telegraph -- 27/07/2005
- Why do we need Britishness?
- By Sunny Hundal in The Guardian
- Schools must teach Britishness
- Schools in England should teach "core British values" alongside cultural diversity, a report published in Jan 2007 said.
- Landscape and language
- What is Britishness? Richard Eyre scrutinises his cultural DNA for clues
- Migrants face new Britishness test
- The Telegraph Dec 2006
- OK -- let's have a Britishness test. But it must be for everyone, migrant or not
- National identity can't just be magicked up, but however it is defined it has to include the native born and newcomers. Jonathan Freedland reflects on the nationality test.
- Britishness
- James Cleverly, a Conservative, comments on Gordon Brown's speech to the Fabians.
- Is there a British Culture?
- Gordon Brown's speech on Britishness
- The chancellor spoke at a seminar on Britishness at the Commonwealth club, London.
- Brown speech promotes Britishness
- Britain should have a day to celebrate its national identity, Gordon Brown has proposed in a speech portraying Labour as a modern patriotic party. The chancellor used his first major speech of 2006 to urge Labour supporters to "embrace the Union flag".
- Britishness what it means to you
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What does it mean to be British?
