I had a German girlfriend once who assured me that I was guilty of promoting some sort of narrow-minded Scots nationalism when I insisted to her that that Scotland was not part of England .

MGM That was praxis , I suppose !

I would have preferred a rather more stirring song on my lips as the doodle bugs came raining down, but I know there was a pretty limited range at the time. "There'll always be an England" seems to me more a WW1 song in sentiment than a WW11 one - Empire equated with freedom . The English - innocent people bombed by the higher technology of the Lufwaffe - had joined the rest of the world by the time Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover became their anthem "tomorrow when the world is free" A great song .