The Importance of Being British

For all the progress that has been made at times, it feels as if we are standing still or even worse going backwards. I didn't call myself British until I was 18 and grew up with a mum who put a kind of Barbados sticker on the door - outside your English, inside your Barbadian. And also there was this notion that either you could be British and only British. You had to leave all the other stuff, or ethnic and racial identity at the door, or you've got nothing to do with the country. So when something like windrush happens, and you see family members and people who could be your aunt or your granny who've been deported or threatened with deportation

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