But Reynolds notes that the more conservative Britons worried that the spread of American consumer culture was "undermining and eroding" British values.
They are civic duties which have clearly been constructed around the idea of British values: tolerance, fair play, respect for democracy and the rule of law.
Gordon Brown, the chancellor, now routinely talks about venerable British values.
During a visit to Fisher House, near Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the chancellor said he wanted to help those who personified the best of British values.
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The new policy has seen the withdrawal of funding for groups the government says are non-violent extremists - organisations that it says oppose "fundamental and universal" British values.
At the Labour conference last week Mr Brown said he was a "conviction politician" who wanted to "defend and extend" British values and help everyone to reach their potential.
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It will also withdraw support from extremist groups - even non-violent ones - and cut off funding to those opposed to what the government calls "fundamental and universal" British values.
However, he reiterated Mr Brown's previous comment that "British laws must be based on British values and that religious law, while respecting other cultures, should be subservient to British criminal and civil law".
The strategy says core British values - like democracy, the rule of law, equality of opportunity and freedom of speech - must be "robustly" promoted and councils, police and politicians must work together to address problems caused by extremist groups.
If the cataclysm of the first world war had destroyed any belief in the immutability of a civilisation based on liberal, progressive British values, the origins of the morbid age can also be found in developments in the natural and social sciences that occurred well before 1914.
Answering an urgent question by Labour's Denis Macshane on 26 January 2011, Mr Hague told MPs that the World Service "performs a valuable role, reflecting British democratic values overseas and supporting British influence in the world" and provided "a beacon to many in the poorest and most insecure countries in the world".
Central government will act in "exceptional" cases - if some funding is needed to "kick start" action - and will promote "mainstream British liberal values", it says.
"The Paralympic reputation is incredibly strong around the world and the production of these coins would send a strong message - it is more than a commemorative coin, it shows how British society values diversity, " she said.
Surprising acceptance, perhaps, given endless twittering about the replacement of British cultural values, particularly among the young, by coarse American cultural values--Rambo for Henry V, Warhol rather than Turner, Eminem in place of Elgar or Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Mr Cameron said in 2006 he wanted to "entrench" a British bill of rights, which would outline "core values" and responsibilities, in British law - so it could not be overturned in the Commons.
People who want to be British citizens should share our values and our way of life.
It won't happen if people live here not learning English or not understanding the values that make us British.
British and American banks, with market values of many times that, are surely interested in buying assets in Europe west and east.
The European Court of Human Rights' judgement set a legal seal on the numerous hearings in which Christians have tried, and failed, to defend their values against secular ones in British courts.
Not least when they pander to a British public that no longer shares many of the fundamental values of the United States and our approach to the world and so distance themselves from the "special relationship" that has served both nations -- and the world -- so well.
The irony though is that while her election results show the pull she exerted through her strong leadership, her populist streak and her raising of the British profile, many Britons never really identified with the underlying values of the woman who became, both in her time as prime minister and in the years to come, a national icon.
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