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England, What England?
EURSOC recommends readers go to the Sunday Times to check out Jeremy Clarkson's epic polemic on the demise of Englishness.
It's hilarious and inspiring: Forget vows of Britishness and quizzes on British identity, this column should be printed off and read in school assemblies across the country.
Things have changed since Clarkson was at school:
"Mention the war and you’ll be told by an outreach counsellor that we must empathise with the Germans, who are coming to terms with their mistakes of the past. “And you know, children, it was actually the British who invented concentration camps . . .”
"Empire? When I was at school, teachers spoke with pride about how a little island in the north Atlantic turned a quarter of the world pink, but now all teachers talk about is the slave trade and how we must hang our heads in shame.
"Right. So we must forgive Germany for invading Poland. But I must beat myself to death every night because my great-great-great-grandad moved some chap from a hellhole in Ghana to Barbados. In fact I can’t even say we’re British any more because then all of Scotland would rush over the border, pour porridge down my trousers and push a thistle up my bottom."
Read the whole thing!
