One of the consequences of the crisis in which multiculturalism now finds itself in the UK has been a bout of hand-wringing about what it means to be British. Over at his blog, Tim Worstall mentions one such conference (the Guardian is involved which tells me all that I need to know), and, on the topic, quotes one blogger found in the pages of his book dedicated to the best of UK blogging last year (a terrific read, incidentally, particularly for anyone either interested in British politics or who just likes a good laugh) as follows:

“The only thing that I can think of that would – for me – go some way to defining a sense of “Britishness” would be a scepticism towards all attempts at defining something as nebulous as such a concept. Theorising about abstractions is something we British tend to prefer to leave to Johnny Foreigner.”

Dead right. And that’s just another reason that I won’t be reading Augustine of Hippo, Jung or that TCS piece on conservatism (roots, philosophy or whatever) that was being talked about here the other day.