Ebook: Being British: What's Wrong With It?

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION : THE BRITISH PATIENT; CHAPTER ONE : VETOES, RIOTS AND ROYALS; CHAPTER TWO : THEM AND US; CHAPTER THREE : FORGETTING OURSELVES; CHAPTER FOUR : BEING VIBRANT; CHAPTER FIVE : BREAKING UP?; CHAPTER SIX : WHAT ARE WE LIKE?; CHAPTER SEVEN : REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL; CHAPTER EIGHT : LOOKING FORWARD; CHAPTER NINE : BEING BRITISH: WHAT'S RIGHT WITH IT; Copyright.;The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics look set to make 2012 as successful as the royal weddings of 2011 when it comes to creating a surge of patriotism across our once self-assured land. But despite the latest wave of nostalgic British pride, Britain is in the midst of an identity crisis, with British values and identity the butt of scorn and sneers. Motivated by the sense that the notion of Britishness has been hijacked, and intrigued by the ever-vexed question of British identity and what it really means, Peter Whittle has set out to examine what's actually wrong with being British. W.