Britishness

Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is joint editor of The Political Quarterly and his books include Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics (2003) and Politics and Fate (2000). Tony Wright is MP for Cannock Chase and Chairman of the Public Administration Committee in the House of Commons. He is joint editor of The Political Quarterly and his books include The British Political Process (1999) and Socialisms: Old and New (1996).Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright have also co-edited The New Social Democracy (1999) and Restating The State? (2004).

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction: The Britishness Question Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright 1‘Bursting with Skeletons’: Britishness after Empire David Marquand 10Does Britishness Still Matter in the Twenty-First Century—and How Much and How Well Do the Politicians Care? Linda Colley 21Being British Bhikhu Parekh 32Britishness: a Role for the State? Varun Uberoi and Iain Mclean 41England and Britain, Europe and the Anglosphere David Willetts 54What Britishness means to the British Peter Kellner 62The BBC and Metabolising Britishness: Critical Patriotism Jean Seaton 72Don’t Mess with Missionary Man: Brown, Moral Compasses and the Road to the Britishness Gerry Hassan 86Britishness and the Future of the Union Robert Hazell 101Devolution, Britishness and the Future of the Union Charlie Jeffery 112Englishness in Contemporary British Politics Richard English, Richard Hayton and Michael Kenny 122The Wager of Devolution and the Challenge to Britishness Arthur Aughey 136Do We Really Need Britannia? Bernard Crick 149Churchill’s Dover Speech (1946)Peter Hennessy 159Index 167