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/// But for generations, our predecessors took our island status immensely seriously. It is surely no accident that perhaps the most famous expression of our patriotic identity, John of Gaunt’s speech in Shakespeare’s play Richard II, describes our country as ‘this scepter’d isle … this fortress built by Nature for herself … this little world, this precious stone set in the silver sea’. ///
/// Winston Churchill In his first radio address as Prime Minister on May 19, 1940, for example, he rallied the nation to ‘the battle for our Island — for all that Britain is, and all that Britain means’. ///
/// ‘We shall defend our Island,’ 'whatever the cost may be.’ As all the world knows, he was as good as his
word. ///
/// Referring to Britain as an island is now, of course, deeply unfashionable. Liberal academics love to tell us that we are merely one European country among many, and our politicians often seem to have a pathological aversion to any thought of British uniqueness. ///