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I did get to see an iMac but the purchase will have to wait.
23rd April 2010: St George's Day
As today is St George's Day, I cycled to early Mass and then came home to breakfast, listening on the radio to accounts of the three main party leaders knocking lumps out of each other the previous evening.
The notion of Englishness has become increasingly marginalised in the political process, and small wonder. The Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties are all global capitalist enthusiasts, and modern international capitalism has no room for little englanders. I thought of William Blake in pessimistic mood:
O Rose, thou art sick!
The Invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of Crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
I cycled to work through one of Ipswich's tougher housing estates (the deprived west and south of the town, with some areas in the worst ten per cent nationwide - The Times) knowing that I could not possibly vote for any of them, and it was only here that I saw flags of St George flying or hanging from windows. Do middle class people and their institutions have no time for England anymore? No wonder the BNP is on the rise.
And then I read Paul Kingsnorth in today's Guardian: The way to understand this is to see England as the last outpost of the British Empire. It is governed by an imperial class which represents the British state, not the English people, and which stamps on any expression of popular culture or demand for representation, lest this undermine its power base. England is now the only nation in Europe without a government or a parliament.
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This memorial window is at St Peter's church, Cringleford, Norwich.
