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Well we could go on and on with silly jokes and just leave it to the sports obsessed Minister for Culture to adopt the FA Cup as the Icon for England. Or we could come up with some serious megalithic suggestions, preferrably avoiding Stonehenge. How about Silbury before it collapses?

Why oh why are the English so embarrassed at owning up to a love of their country? I have no time for war-mongering jingoism, racism, private land ownership, political cant, nationalism, soccer tribal warfare and I certainly don't give a damn as to who wins the Ashes! But I love this land. I've travelled the world and seen much that is more dramatic and spectacular, but this is home. You can jeer and snigger and tell me that I'm not "cool" - but I know that anyway ;o)

British by birth, English by the grace of God!

I suppose someone will get out of their pram about me just liking being English, hardly PC these days. But what the bloddy hell's wrong with being proud of OUR heritage?

Hi Peter,
of course I was being flippant by suggesting Irene Handl, although she does typify Englishness for me. However your suggestion of Silbury seems even more bizarre. As we are well aware, virtually no one in England knows anything about Silbury. If you must have a megalithic icon then it would have to be Stonehenge as it's probably the only Megalithic monument that most English people have heard.
A more serious suggestion from me would be a picture of an English high street showing curry houses, chinese takeaways, kebab & pizza shops, chippies, irish pubs etc, an image of our wonderful and ever changing multi cultural hot pot.