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'I am unfashionably patriotic; I love England, and I've always felt very proud to be English; for me England is not just a place, or a disappointing football team, or a war against the Gerries; its not the knee jerk reactions of Daily Mail readers, Little England's fear of Johnny Foreigner, or sentimental nostalgia for steep streets off Hovis adverts; England is an altogether higher and more progressive ideal, the promise of a fairer and better way of life, and the nobility and romance of the English dream swells my heart with ridiculous pride... the problem is, whenever I try to untangle what being English actually means, it tends to unravel and disappear before my eyes' -Citizen Smith