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Prime minister Boris Johnson in the stands during the UEFA Euro 2020 semi final match at Wembley Stadium, London
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Ahead of the final, Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football ponders the meaning of Kane, Southgate and Sterling.
Said the Socialist Worker on Tuesday: “If football comes home, it’s going to Johnson’s house. Let’s not stand at the door begging to be let in.”
With dreary predictability, one section of the left, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), has come out with a well-worn argument on the false consciousness of supporting England (they seem to have mislaid Scotland and Wales) at the Euros.
Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL
‘Honest’ Tom Wharton’s 1682 drunken rampage through St Mary’s church haunted his political career, but his satirical song Lillibullero helped topple Catholic James II during the Glorious Revolution, writes MAT COWARD
