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By City A.M. Comment Desk City A.M.’s weekly feature takes the fiercest water-cooler debates and pits two candidates head to head before delivering The Judge’s ultimate verdict. Is English nationalism a force for good?Yes: Why wouldn’t we be proud of Shakespeare?Although the English have been writing their history since the Venerable Bede in the eighth century, England nationalism is today primarily the preserve of football hooligans. As George Orwell put it, England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. But people have a natural desire to …

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