> In a way it feels like the writer despises the UK It's the Guardian, that is their schtick. Orwell summed up this attitude well in England Your England[1]:

> In a way it feels like the writer despises the UK It's the Guardian, that is their schtick. Orwell summed up this attitude well in England Your England[1]: > In intention, at any rate, the English intelligentsia are Europeanized. They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow. In the general patriotism of the country they form a sort of island of dissident thought. England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. Plus ça change. [1] https://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_eye https://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_eye