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Who Are We Now? Exploring English identity, with Jason Cowley
Intelligence Squared
Blair Was a Progressive Politician
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In 19 95, two years before he won the first new labour landslide election in 97, he gave a speech in which he did say, i want this to be a young country. What he was speaking about was britain, i think, not england. But he was aware of the weight of the past empire, colonialism, and he wanted somehow to be free from it. And he wanted to kind of re invent the country as dynamic, open liberal, progressive.
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