The debate about English identity has been a perennial one but has now taken on a harder edge ...

English people increasingly see white skin as irrelevant to their national identity, according to a new study from the Centre for English Identity and Politics and British Future. The analysis, a ...

Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick clashed with a Sky News presenter as he repeatedly failed to explain what he meant by “English identity”. In an article for the Daily Mail, the former ...

How English do you feel? Views from Hackney and Boston Why doesn't England have its own national anthem and why are the English obsessed with tea? These are some of the questions our readers asked ...

Andy Murray’s historic victory at Wimbledon sparked instant debate about whether his was a win for Scotland or Britain. Clearly, First Minister Alex Salmond was in little doubt, as he akwardly ...

‘We need to talk more about England, and what we want it to mean today, for more people to feel included’ (Getty Images) St George has not always been the most feted of patron saints – many people ...

The English “can trace their roots back over generations” and have a history which is “the legacy of our collective identity”. This should be an uncontroversial claim. When the Venerable Bede wrote ...

Inspired by a Zadie Smith quote, a new campaign aims to “stretch the flag” of St George. By John Denham It is the English, rather than the British, whose votes are taking us out of the EU. This was ...

Towards the end of last year, Sadiq Khan gave a speech at the London Conference emphasising the capital’s need to make common cause with other cities and regions. London, the mayor reminded his ...

While the Irish national identity took another millennium to undergo the same formational the English principally defined itself by creating a dynamic between two peoples whose core identities were, ...