The Patriot Paradox: Can you love your country but not like it?

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Patriotism could be the antidote to the divisions created by Brexit. Can you be a proud patriot even when you don’t agree with your country? Will patriotism ever cast off it’s sinister connotations of nationalism? Ros Taylor is joined in The Bunker by Sunder Katwala, author of How to Be a Patriot: Why love of country can end our very British culture war, to explore what British patriotism means in an increasingly globalised age. “Dangerous patriotism is the version that says it's them or us.” “The European Identity sounds like a Whiter concept than British identity.” “People on the left have less problems with civic patriotism of cities over national identity.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Book Link https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40133746294862 Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Simon Williams. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.9	said it was the last refuge of the scoundrel. So why is the left suspicious of it? Should we learn to love our country?
1:25.8	And if so, how, given the state it's in?
1:28.7	Sundakatwala is the author of How to be a Patriot and joins me in the studio.
1:33.0	Welcome to the bunker, Sunder.
1:34.2	Great to be here.
1:35.9	Thunder, would you always have described yourself as a Patriot?
1:39.1	I don't know if I'd have used the term when I was growing up
1:42.2	and I would have had some sense of distance as well
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