British values and the notion of identity | Letters

Rafael Behr (If this is liberation why does it feel so dull and joyless?, 21 December) has not convinced me that patriotism is anything other than nationalism lite. Human beings need a home, a sense of familiar place, a locus, but this place may be something much smaller than the modern, militaristic nation state.I identify far more as a citizen of London, or indeed my local borough, than as “British”, and although I feel lucky to live in a country still more relaxed and peaceful tha