How can HP sauce be an icon of Britishness? It's made in Holland

Artist David Mach is crowdsourcing 2,000 bottles of HP sauce to make a (possibly ironic) work exploring British identity

So what are British values and what is British identity? It is the question de nos jours (if that is not too French a way of putting it). The government wants all schools to instil "British" values. While this response to a crisis in Birmingham schools raises the question of what Britishness is, that very same question is raised by the rise of Ukip and the wave of xenophobic nationalism it seems to reveal.

The biggest and most serious challenge to the very idea that Britons share a common identity is, however, the vote in Scotland that will soon decide if the union survives. Is it a bit late to be asking what Britishness is when it might be gone in the autumn?

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