Michael Henderson on Radio
WE HEAR SO MUCH THESE DAYS about identity, and the conversation is framed in narrow terms designed to keep others out. Shrill voices proclaim membership of religious, ethnic, political, sexual and sporting tribes, as though it comes with a blessing from Zeus. Such identities exist, nobody has ever denied that, but they should never be so important that they silence other considerations.
Predictably overlooked is the most natural loyalty, which binds individual to country. Without a sense of national identity,
