This essay, on Englishness, race and ethnicity, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 23 February 2025, under the headline “Can a brown Hindu be English? Most Britons say yes. Why do so many on the right say no?” “They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed […]

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