[BITList] yes, it's racism

[HUGH]

Colin,

A related story tells us that (unlike Romney, one infers) Obama wouldn't sing "Land of Hope and Glory".  Good for Obama, and he'd be in good company, for the composer, Elgar, grew to hate it, and mostly nowadays it's sung by red white and blue festooned prats at the last night of the Proms.  But why all this talk of Anglo-Saxon values, etc? Somewhat out-of-date, given these invaders had settled down on the bits they invaded of what became England by little more than halfway through the first millenium. Brits they were not, and their values were just a teensy bit rape and pillage.

Hugh.
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