Comments on: Brown’s Britishness: Nationality Or Citizenship?

By: Regional governance and the English parliament « Britology Watch: Deconstructing ‘British Values’

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:12:28 +0000

[...] Brown at least just had his own blueprint in mind for what I’ve called elsewhere a unitary ’state-nation of Britain’, with certain areas of government devolved effectively to the regions, three of which coincided [...]

By: Brown + Willetts = get me out of here « OurKingdom

Brown + Willetts = get me out of here « OurKingdom — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:49:16 +0000

[...] at BritologyWatch has had a good long go at what Brown said, calculating that he used “Britain” or “British” 64 [...]

By: David

David — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:46:09 +0000

Thanks very much, Alistair. Well, if you know someone on Newsnight or in any of the broadsheets, feel free to give it a plug on my behalf!

By: Alistair Livingston

Alistair Livingston — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:10:10 +0000

Wow.This is a very impressive piece of work – but needs to be main article in several serious newspaper/ main item on Newsnight , not tucked away on a blogsite. On domestic duties right now (wheel chair pusher) but will come back and read again very slowly to make sure I have absorbed it. 11/10

By: Brown’s Britishness: Nationality Or Citizenship?

Brown’s Britishness: Nationality Or Citizenship? — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:21:28 +0000

[...] disembedded wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptStudents of GB’s [Gordon Brown’s] Brit-obsessed public discourse will have a field day with his speech to the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) on ‘Managed Migration and Earned Citizenship’ on Wednesday. A theme calculated to allow the PM to wax lyrical on his beloved Britishness theme! Sixty-four occurrences of either ‘Britain’ or ‘British’ against a word total of 4,839, i.e. 1.3% of all the words. That doesn’t sound much, I suppose, but if you consider how many words (including the frequently occurring basic nouns, verbs and pronouns) there are in a typical sentence, particularly in a serious formal speech, that equates to quite a high ratio of Brits per sentence. Not as high as the ratio of ‘citizen(s)’ or ‘citizenship’ per sentence in this instance, however! There were 75 appearances of the ‘C’ word = 1.55%. Well, I suppose the speech was about citizenship, after all. But was it more […] [...]