The British Are Going! The British Are Going!

The History Girls have an excellent post by Leslie Wilson, on the latest wolf cry in the land – we often hear of the “death of” (insert a much-treasured whatsis here – rock and roll, Star Wars, a given nation-state, good manners, any –ism you like).  Indeed, I get guilty of this sort of thing myself, but lack the energy for much sustained shrillness about most matters.

Here we have the death of Brisish-ness (as evidenced by a theoretical and statistically unsound minoritizing of white people Coming Soon to an Island Near You, and the advent of “human rights” – some sort of alien concept brought on by too much affiliation with the Continent, that).

Britain and the British (… or England and the English? even the decryers can’t say, apparently!):  “dying” at least since 1066 …

A “sadly popular narrative” indeed.