partly out of sheer laziness partly because England is a nation, and might reasonably be expected to have some sort of coherent and distinctive national culture or character, whereas Britain is a purely political construct, composed of several nations with their own distinctive cultures partly because although there may be a great deal of overlap between these cultures, they are clearly not identical and should not be treated as such by being lumped together under ‘Britishness’ and finally because ‘Britishness’ seems to me to be a rather meaningless term: when people use it, they nearly always
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