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Hans Kundnani is a visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University and the author of 'Eurowhiteness Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project' and 'The Paradox of German Power' ...

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This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the ...