National identity

Posting patriots have to remember to log off and do something for their communities

It should be the end point of integration rather than a tool to encourage it

The decline of national attachments among elites has led to the decline of Britain

Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed

There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism

The English have debated their national nature for centuries

Britain must rediscover its stories and dreams

Britain does not owe Greece the Parthenon sculptures

Graham Cunningham asks why Englishness has failed to garner its own version of the self-flattering national mythology of so many other nations

Daniel Pipes’s quest to understand the English national character leaves him none the wiser