John Major, former prime minister, notoriously said in 1993: 'Britain is a nation of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and - as George Orwell said - old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist.' A load of bollocks of course. How drunk would you need to be, when the SPAD handed you that script, to say 'Oh Yes. That would make a great speech.' The SNP pointed out at the time that this was a bonkers vision of England, not Britain. Baffled English commenators pointed out that it was a picture of a part of rural England that nobody really recognised any more. So the debate about 'British Values' isn't new. But the answers to the question about what they might be seem as bizarre as ever. MORE
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