Kavita: Why did you look at england and english identity as opposed to britain? Jason: In many ways, it fired the amb s off the scottish nationalists. So i was very aware that what happens if britain breaks out? Where does that leave england and the english who have been encouraged for so long to think of themselves as british)? Kavita: I've always had a sense that somewhere england, which is obviously the dominant country in the united kingdom, i think 84 % of the population of the u k lives in england andthe uk.
Jason Cowley is Editor of British political weekly, The New Statesman. He’s also an author and his latest book, Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England, is a timely reflection on the identity of his home nation. The book follows both individual stories of everyday life and the broad arc of national politics over the past 25 years spanning the ascent of the Tony Blair government to Tory austerity, Brexit and the pandemic. Hosting the discussion is Kavita Puri, journalist, broadcaster and author of the book and radio programme, Partition Voices, which explores issues of identity within the British Asian community.
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