How to Be a Patriot - Why Love of Country Can End Our Very British Culture War

On race, nationhood, belonging and Britain-s identity crisis.-Sunder Katwala has helped to lead the public conversation on national identity.- David Lammy MP-Ever my go-to guy when trying to make sense of this ferociously polarised issue.- Tom HollandSunder Katwala grew up with some identity questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic kid, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal. Yet he came to realise that, with that background, he could hardly be anything but proudly British. And feeling British was getting much easier once the banana-throwing racists on the football terraces and Norman Tebbit-s divisive cricket test gave way to a softer patriotism as the spirit of the Britpop era carried through to Danny Boyle-s Olympic opening ceremony. Gazza-s tears and Gareth Southgate had changed what it meant to be English too. Having put his own search for an inclusive patriotism back on track, Sunder wondered why so many other English liberals seeme