This brand of patriotism looks less like celebrating American greatness and more like deciding whose art, identities and stories deserve to represent the country.
“We’ve had the ridiculous arrests of thousands for simply holding a sign. And now this against one of the best writers of her generation. This ban needs to be overturned.”
“The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy.”
Perhaps one of the world’s most commercially successful footballers simply decided another company was offering him a better deal.
No sooner had the election been announced than the knives were out.
The parliamentary debate comes as Andy Burnham has explicitly put rejoining the EU on the table as one possible option for Britain's long-term relationship with Europe.