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muriel_volestrangler

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23. I think it's from the Richard II speech

Mon Jul 2, 2012, 04:47 AM

Jul 2012

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of Majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise;
This fortress built by Nature for herself,
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands;
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth.

John of Gaunt, Scene I

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_II_%28play%29

Rather chauvinistic. The magazine has been around for some time (1968, looking it up on Wikipedia - and owned since 2009 by DC Thomson of Dundee!) All the pictures of the countryside look harmless, and the nostalgia looks it too - until it tips into a diatribe on how Europeans are ruining everything. Wikipedia says DC Thomson is cleaning it up a bit.

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British, English, Scottish - Who do you think you are? [View all] MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 OP

If the UK votes to leave the EU, will the Scots vote to leave the UK and stay in the EU? FarCenter Jul 2012 #1

We vote in 2014, on the political union. I'm not sure Whitehall will give a vote on the EU anyway.nt MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #3

Cameron to face rebellion over EU plans FarCenter Jul 2012 #7

I don't follow Westminster politics too much. MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #10

They'd also need to vote dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #5

Shift+Alt+4 ikri Jul 2012 #8

I tried what you said dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #12

There is a magazine that is popular among the geezer set in UK called THIS ENGLAND. MADem Jul 2012 #2

I couldn't tell you, as a Scot, I'm not English. So I'll take your word for it. MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #6

I'm not English either....I just lived over that way and am familiar with some peculiarities of the MADem Jul 2012 #19

I could tell by the title, sounds like a play on "This is England" they don't take kindly. MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #22

I think it's from the Richard II speech muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #23

I'll give it a miss 'This England'. DC Thomson is a large publishing co it doesn't surprise. MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #24

Geezers ? This a geezer - dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #14

That's a scream! nt MADem Jul 2012 #18

Almost everything on the Fast Show was. dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #20

Just a shame Brits still regard them as immigrants.. HipChick Jul 2012 #4

I read somewhere that people across the UK are more open than we used to be. MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #11

When I think about 'British' vs 'English,' yewberry Jul 2012 #9

To me British is geographical, which has personally been superseded. MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #13

I agree - mr blur Jul 2012 #15

Remember, we have very different lines of sight on this. yewberry Jul 2012 #16

Its just Identity it can mean different things to different people. MichaelMcGuire Jul 2012 #17

So true. yewberry Jul 2012 #21