>You'd never hear that from anyone not absolutely riddled with a kind of middle classness that looks like self-loathing but is really loathing anyone who likes

>You'd never hear that from anyone not absolutely riddled with a kind of middle classness that looks like self-loathing but is really loathing anyone who likes being British. Two centuries ago, British politician George Canning had a good description of such people: >A steady patriot of the world alone, >The friend of every country but his own. (<https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00002561 https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/978019184...>)