Same old English, always colonizing
Sunday, November 19, 2006
This time it's cultural.
The Department for Culture, Media and Support has been running a project to choose England's foremost icons.
And the rest of the world will be surprised to discover what's deemed to be iconically English these days:
- a cup of tea
- the local bobby
- Fish and Chips
- the oak tree
- rugby
- the V sign
...and even THE WEATHER.
What a petty, misguided and divisive project for a government ministry to run.
Tessa Jowell, if she's serious about this, can come down to the Millennium Stadium in the pouring rain. 70,000 rugby fans, I'm sure, will show her that the V sign is alive and well outside of England.
Labels: England, English, fish and chips, rugby, tea, Tessa Jowell, Wales, weather
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