This new video from Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip has some great stock footage of Britain. Not a bad song either.

With the British National Party choosing to hijack St George’s Day to launch their anti-English, anti-British manifesto (which would criminalise journalists who criticised them and lead to deportation for anyone who follows suit) it seems like a good time to put up this video from Philosophy Football, which is, ostensibly, about their new T-shirt for the World Cup.

The BNP say that anyone who is anything but white cannot be English, even when born here. Yet look around the country, especially London, where I live, and you see all colours wearing the England shirt and cheering them on. The BNP would like to see an England squad without the likes of Rio Ferdinand, Jermain Defoe and Ashley Cole. They would exclude Aaron Lennon, Glen Johnson and David James. The BNP would like to ‘repatriate’ these players and their families. Though who knows where to?

On the subject of football fashion, Umbro have some rather nice stuff available for the World Cup, as do Fred Perry.

Come on England. And the English.

Tomorrow is St George’s Day. I may write about Britain a lot, but I still think of myself as English first and foremost. So, to mark this I shall be appearing to do a reading before some bands in central London in the evening and no doubt enjoying a few fine English ales. The events is at The Royal George, 133 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EA from 7.30pm.