I just don't understand where this slightly paranoid notion that English culture is under attack comes from. From where I stand we haven't been invaded. It's still the dominant culture in the UK. It's talked about all the time in the media, in the pub, in politics in the workplace, in schools. It has its good and bad aspects and all are part of it. It's also a constantly evolving and changing thing (the only static cultures are dead cultures) in order to incorporate new ideas, the cultures of different immigrant groups, changes in perception and so on. That's a good thing.

It's not really about stuff like flags and so on. Its about people and what they do and how they interact.

I'm also with Leveller in wanting to celebrate our fine and longstanding tradition of resistance, rebellion and dissent. I can't help feeling that this, rather than the history of kings and queen and conquest and empire is my history, my culture.

Finally, anyone who is interested in the history of English culture is urged to read Ronald Hutton's excellent The Rise and Fall of Merry England.