posted by Matthew @ 1/07/2003 04:14:00 PM
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Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Kieran Healy has an interesting discussion on the concept of the 'Anglosphere'. I think I agree with him but look at the other links. My view on the idea is that it's rather obvious and yet unimportant at the same time. The idea that the English-speaking countries have many social, political and economic features in common is well known and well-commented on throughout history -- see Churchill for example. Yet at the same time clearly the UK has much in common with many European countries -- in some areas rather more than it has with the the English-speaking countries (e.g off the top of my head the welfare state, football, attitudes to gun control, social policy).