It really doesn't
Ask the Islamists who have UK passports but attack the UK and their supposed fellow citizens
Britishness, or its absence, is in the heart not in a bureaucrat's box ticking

February 15, 2026 - 17:50 UTC

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But nationality is bureaucracy
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i don't agree. it's partly that, it's confirmed by a bureaucrat but it's also in the heart
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But in that case Britishness is an ineffable moral thing, unknowable to anyone but the individual - or debatable in everyone's case (was Kim Philby British? Is ex-prince Andrew? etc). Is it really useful to muddy the political waters with that, when "British citizen" carries no such implication?
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It's not based on the unknowable - we do know. Islamists reject the idea they're British. It's at the heart of their argument
I'm sorry to say Philby and Andrew are/were British. There's no escaping ot
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How about the white supremacists who sold the country to Putin, aka Brexit - deaths from economic consequences far greater than 100 years of terrorist attacks
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You're missing the point, Dave
Islamists are offended by the statement that they're British. I think we ought to respect that
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A state is at it's heart a bureaucracy.
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Sure
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