How does anyone reach adulthood and believe this craphttps://twitter.com/andrew_lilico/status/1102230984093777921?s=21 …
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By travelling and reading?
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I’m well read, have travelled to 46 countries and lived in 3 others, but I will always feel an affinity for Britain. I imagine most people of most nationalities would feel the same. This is not a weird thing.
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He didn’t say he had an affinity for Britain - I have one too, and like coming back and eating Stilton and walking in the hills. he said Britain was special and mattered in a way that other countries don’t because of its history and undefined duty, possibly bestowed on it by God
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Indeed - I have an incredible affection for UK & even moreso for the five mile stretch of north and east London I’ve lived in most of my life! But I also know I’d feel that way if I had grown up in south east London or France or Neptune. AL appears not to.
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Well, I’m not sure God had anything to do with it but it’s a matter of fact that Britain has played an extraordinarily influential role in world history in the last few centuries. We are not A.N. Other country.
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Am not disputing that
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He grew up in NZ, iirc.
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Somewhat in Chester as well. I used to work in a pub with his sister.
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I don't have a clue what he's talking about and I grew up here. It's a perfectly decent country but that's about it.
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It's really cringey that you reckon the literal location you happened to be deposited in makes that location the best place in the world.
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Blocks don't know. Is it anything to do with this?pic.twitter.com/bGanZZ5jh6
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I feel it too. The absolute importance of time and place and the gratefulness we feel for what we have in a world of radical contingency makes such expressions of value possible. A truly wonderful expression of what 'matters'.
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What makes you think you or your country is so exceptional?
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Cos of people like you
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