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6/25/2025, 9:55:09 PM
>First, though, both he and we had to endure the other speakers. Kruger kicked off. As he started speaking, Skinner spun his seat side-on and leant back a deckchair 45 degrees. Kruger talked about how England was the “first nation”, about Wycliffe, Bede and Alfred. And though we had been “interpenetrated by foreigners”, he exalted the great continuities in English history and that “anyone can become English”, a remark the man in front of me seemed to find oddly exercising. Behind me, a woman was resting her eyes. Skinner slouched and itched, swigging water directly from a large glass bottle (forgoing the tumbler provided).
>Skinner ultimately scrambled off the stage during the Q&A – he said he had to take a call – and it was a good time to leave. First, there was a question from Carl Benjamin, a disgraced alt-right YouTuber. And then, as Tombs was saying something anodyne about how anyone could be English, he was interrupted by a nativist heckler. “Ridiculous!” someone said. “You inherit Englishness, it’s in your ancestry.” Tombs argued him down, but the mood had soured. Perhaps he had just meant inheritance in the sense that these things must be actively passed down. Perhaps not.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/06/thomas-skinners-full-english
>Skinner ultimately scrambled off the stage during the Q&A – he said he had to take a call – and it was a good time to leave. First, there was a question from Carl Benjamin, a disgraced alt-right YouTuber. And then, as Tombs was saying something anodyne about how anyone could be English, he was interrupted by a nativist heckler. “Ridiculous!” someone said. “You inherit Englishness, it’s in your ancestry.” Tombs argued him down, but the mood had soured. Perhaps he had just meant inheritance in the sense that these things must be actively passed down. Perhaps not.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/06/thomas-skinners-full-english
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