Dorley Hall can only cure manhood, not Britishness :(
Alyson I love you and hate you for making me appreciate something that's so very steeped in the British cultural context ;P
December 24, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Dorley Hall can only cure manhood, not Britishness :(
Britishness. @jeevunsandher.bsky.social x
This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Britishness. @jeevunsandher.bsky.social x
Iranian immigrant to America says that London, which he hasn't visited, is losing it's Britishness
Mehdi Hasan slaps him down
Mehdi Hasan slaps him down
July 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Iranian immigrant to America says that London, which he hasn't visited, is losing it's Britishness
Mehdi Hasan slaps him down
Mehdi Hasan slaps him down
I keep saying it: britain must be destroyed. "britishness" is genuinely evil. britain is a blight upon the world.
August 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I keep saying it: britain must be destroyed. "britishness" is genuinely evil. britain is a blight upon the world.
Hey Siri, in one line capture the very essence of Britishness.
just caught my computer at the moment it switched to 'night mode'. felt a bit rude, like walking in on someone changing.
February 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hey Siri, in one line capture the very essence of Britishness.
this guy is expressing epigenetic britishness as hard as anyone I have ever seen.
August 26, 2026 at 10:19 PM
this guy is expressing epigenetic britishness as hard as anyone I have ever seen.
Ex-soldier: Paying Taliban to take migrants ‘vile perversion of Britishness’
www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/nationa...
www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/nationa...
Ex-soldier: Paying Taliban to take migrants ‘vile perversion of Britishness’
Reform UK’s deputy leader this week indicated the party would consider paying the Taliban and the Iranian government to take deportees from…
www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Ex-soldier: Paying Taliban to take migrants ‘vile perversion of Britishness’
www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/nationa...
www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/nationa...
New today on the site!
“Blimps and Pimpernels: Powell & Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness” - Robert Wilton
“Blimps and Pimpernels: Powell & Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness” - Robert Wilton
Powell and Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness
Over the two decades of their collaboration, the films of Powell and Pressburger emerged as the working out of a love affair with Britain and Britishness.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
August 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
New today on the site!
“Blimps and Pimpernels: Powell & Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness” - Robert Wilton
“Blimps and Pimpernels: Powell & Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness” - Robert Wilton
Reform’s Chris Parry doubts the Britishness of Sir Lenny Henry too
December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reform’s Chris Parry doubts the Britishness of Sir Lenny Henry too
It's Britishness should be beyond doubt
Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean
Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean
Wastewater from nearly 40,000 people and businesses pumped straight into sea as territory still has no treatment plant
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
It's Britishness should be beyond doubt
if you tell me that protesting the government’s complicity in a genocide is unbritish then i’m afraid what i’m hearing is that britishness is bad
October 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
if you tell me that protesting the government’s complicity in a genocide is unbritish then i’m afraid what i’m hearing is that britishness is bad
These people claim to be the true guardians of Britishness but they are painfully American.
Morning.
David Frost wants to be part of an ethereal reality.
David Frost wants to be part of an ethereal reality.
April 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
These people claim to be the true guardians of Britishness but they are painfully American.
Reminds me of the Brexit era obsession with fishermen, who I respect a great deal but don’t agree are the very core of Britishness
May 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Reminds me of the Brexit era obsession with fishermen, who I respect a great deal but don’t agree are the very core of Britishness
On Suella Braverman's comments about Englishness (though I will change it to Britishness as I'm not English): I have a foreign-born parent but nobody has ever asked me where I'm really from or questioned my Britishness, because I'm white. That's why people are saying her comments are racist.
October 2, 2026 at 8:53 AM
On Suella Braverman's comments about Englishness (though I will change it to Britishness as I'm not English): I have a foreign-born parent but nobody has ever asked me where I'm really from or questioned my Britishness, because I'm white. That's why people are saying her comments are racist.
Fintan O'Toole's latest piece is a great piece of commentary. Three points to make.
Firstly, there is *nothing* contradictory in either Englishness/Britishness and being pro-European.
The difficulty, indeed, is just accepting that Englishness or Britishness is just another European culture.
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Firstly, there is *nothing* contradictory in either Englishness/Britishness and being pro-European.
The difficulty, indeed, is just accepting that Englishness or Britishness is just another European culture.
1
May 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Fintan O'Toole's latest piece is a great piece of commentary. Three points to make.
Firstly, there is *nothing* contradictory in either Englishness/Britishness and being pro-European.
The difficulty, indeed, is just accepting that Englishness or Britishness is just another European culture.
1
Firstly, there is *nothing* contradictory in either Englishness/Britishness and being pro-European.
The difficulty, indeed, is just accepting that Englishness or Britishness is just another European culture.
1
If Farage/Tice/Lowe want to claim that “being born here doesn’t make you British”, they are denying Henry Nowak’s Britishness.
I wonder… 🤔
I wonder… 🤔
July 1, 2026 at 8:58 AM
If Farage/Tice/Lowe want to claim that “being born here doesn’t make you British”, they are denying Henry Nowak’s Britishness.
I wonder… 🤔
I wonder… 🤔
thesis that Britishness is essentially just politicised hatred of young people continues to hold water
The SNP Government has been blasted for "wasting our money" after forking out nearly £10 million on "free bikes" for kids at £700 a pop.
SNP Government forks out nearly £10m on 'free' bikes for children at £700 a pop
A Scottish Labour MP claimed "the one thing the SNP excel at is wasting our money" after the costs of the scheme were revealed.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
thesis that Britishness is essentially just politicised hatred of young people continues to hold water
What flavour of shit filled rivers, transphobia and poor and brown people hating really defines britishness?
April 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
What flavour of shit filled rivers, transphobia and poor and brown people hating really defines britishness?
the profound Britishness of a screaming valkyrie telling you to form an orderly line
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
the profound Britishness of a screaming valkyrie telling you to form an orderly line
Feel free to drop them into your conversations for added Britishness!
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Feel free to drop them into your conversations for added Britishness!
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity
www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
September 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity
www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
the labour party deploys britishness like american parties deploy americanness, seemingly without the understanding that britishness is not considered a desirable thing in many parts of the UK
they long for that thing american pols can do where they say the name of the country and get a cheer
they long for that thing american pols can do where they say the name of the country and get a cheer
September 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
the labour party deploys britishness like american parties deploy americanness, seemingly without the understanding that britishness is not considered a desirable thing in many parts of the UK
they long for that thing american pols can do where they say the name of the country and get a cheer
they long for that thing american pols can do where they say the name of the country and get a cheer
Britishness vs Englishness vs "Greater Britishness" vs Otherness is a thing
It's not the thing Farage, Musk and the muckrakers think
but it is a thing
It's not the thing Farage, Musk and the muckrakers think
but it is a thing
June 5, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Britishness vs Englishness vs "Greater Britishness" vs Otherness is a thing
It's not the thing Farage, Musk and the muckrakers think
but it is a thing
It's not the thing Farage, Musk and the muckrakers think
but it is a thing
Integrate into what, exactly? What constitutes Britishness? Place of birth? Parentage? Shared experience? Social awkwardness? Pubs? Village cricket? How many shibboleths are required?
May 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Integrate into what, exactly? What constitutes Britishness? Place of birth? Parentage? Shared experience? Social awkwardness? Pubs? Village cricket? How many shibboleths are required?