How the left lost the fight for Englishness | Suzanne Moore

The new government is not a rightwing coup – it is the result of a long culture war between patronising ‘creatives’ and the half of the country they despiseThe first rule of culture war is you don’t talk about culture wars, even though they are two a penny – we are having culture wars over abortion rights, sex education and legalising cannabis. Meanwhile, talk of a Tory “war cabinet” has been criticised on the grounds that we are not having an actual war