as, you know, a historian, I don’t love appeals to Britain’s humanitarian past: but this is absolutely the time a Labour politician should be wheeling out Britain’s “proud history of welcoming people in need” or whatever
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It’s okay for a nation to live up to its highest ideals even in the face of its harsh history.
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Again, I’m very ambivalent about “progressive patriotism”, but there’s a flag-shagging position that emphasises all those so-called British values of tolerance, diversity, yada yada yada. This is, in fact, the way to resist the “divisive” use of the flag that Starmer insists he rejects!
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