Perhaps European harmonisation would make life easier, but that would be only the beginning.

Our peculiar brand of democracy and liberty is a noble thing, but we should be wary of recommending it to other countries.

Robert Tomson was a typical Englishman and it nearly killed him, but it also made him a fortune and won him a bride.

After a visit to England in 1847, Aleksey Khomyakov published his impressions of our country and our people in a Moscow magazine.

Piqued by the way French and German literati mocked the English, Charles Dickens urged his compatriots to be the better men.

Richard Price argued that the true patriot does not scold other countries for being worse than his own; he inspires his own country to be better than it is.