And Did Those Feet?

In search of the English Soul

‘England’, wrote the nation’s greatest twentieth-century essayist, ‘resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the s…