Mine is hardly a timely intervention (as we call contributions to debate now), but I thought I'd post here a letter offered by me to the
FT for publication but not used by them. It follows a piece by Simon Schama in the
FT (5/6 October 2013) strongly deprecating the
Daily Mail's accusation that Ralph Miliband wasn't a patriot. By the way, though in all sorts of ways I am a cosmopolitan liberal, I am strongly in support of the sort of line taken by the
Mail's Paul Dacre in his
Guardian piece on how his paper stands for the suburbanite mind. I agree that this mindset is the backbone of Britain, and I share many of its prejudices.
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