🇬🇧 UK 3d ago · Tom McTague

Whose national character is it anyway?

New Statesman UK
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I write this before England’s game against Croatia in the World Cup and before the result of the by-election in Makerfield. I write this, in other words, before I know the mood of the nation – at least the mood of that bit of the nation south of the border. By the time you read this, then, there may be a sense of deepening apprehension about our fate (dangerous) or a tentative sense of hope (more dangerous still).



The mood of a nation is an intangible, hard-to-gauge thing, of course. It is no

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