First, senior politicians are musing on what being British is all about.
Only time will tell but the Bradshaws remain determined to carry on with their experiment to see if buying British is a viable lifestyle choice for the future.
The worry for the British is that this incident may signal the return of a tactic used years ago by Irish Republican militants: pre-meditated attacks on British soldiers inside England.
How wonderfully British is that?
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The first duty of a British Government is to protect British interests - the security of our country and the prosperity of our people.
My view is that the British public is a bit more sensible than the council gives credit for here, and that an opt-out system would produce substantially more donor organs from among those who mean to sign the donor register "when they get around to it".
That is the plan that British Airways is now bringing to fruition.
Now, for the avoidance of doubt, there is a trend here - which is that every big British bank is struggling to keep control of the costs of fines and compensation relating to a great variety of forms of sloppy practices and misbehaviour in the boom years.
It should be noted that the Insurance company in British Columbia is the Insurance Company of British Columbia (ICBC), a company owned and operated by the government which, in the province of BC and Canada, is left-wing and highly involved in the operation and administration of the ICBC.
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So busy are most investment banks, after Bank of Scotland's bid for National Westminster Bank, that finding an analyst able to comment on British banking is about as easy as finding British beef on a French dining-table.
"I don't think there is any sense of delusion that the British position is that we would carry on operations in Afghanistan without America".
If that weren't enough, this London brewery is also overturning the common perception abroad that British beer is warm, weak and undrinkable.
He says the default setting is unpatriotic because shoppers believe "German salami is better than British salami and French wine is better than British wine".
All this is particularly worrying at a time when the British economy is finally slowing, its housing market subsiding and over-indebted consumers beginning to stagger under the weight of their mortgages and overdrafts.
But, there is another side to the story, as the British monarchy is about to find out.
Another less obvious factor in British thinking is strong American concern over the risk that a British-born Muslim could enter the United States and commit a terrorist spectacular there.
As well as providing a popular figurehead for those involved, the Queen's presence is also a significant part of the reason that British racing is so renowned around the world.
The third series, which takes place some two-and-a-half years on from the season two finale, is currently being shown in Denmark - and a British character is understood to be in the cast .
Second, that the more the British government is successful in reducing the innate riskiness of all British banks and their size, the easier it would be for Scotland to secede and keep its big banks.
Which is why part of what the chancellor calls the British dilemma is how to allow our banks to thrive but not be so huge that when they get into difficulties they risk bankrupting the Exchequer and taxpayers.
He would like to say that it is acceptable to be both, just as for those who are born to mixed origin families where one parent is British and the other is not.
"It is a British team that is sent to the Olympics and, while the world championships in November will be of a higher standard, this is the one everyone wants to play in, " she said.
Other countries will do so as well, but it is the British public that is most likely to say no witness the strong showing of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which calls for Britain to quit the EU, at this month's European Parliament elections.
And that is one of the reasons why demand for the great British butler is on the increase.
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This is not to say, as some observers do, that British boxing is in terminal decline.
"The essence of British style is in its timelessness, " said Sue Newton, spokeswoman for quintessential British heritage brand Barbour.
Sure Start, the version the British government is pushing, looks more promising it starts earlier, is more intensive and involves mothers, which evidence suggests are all important but as it rolls out, the British government needs to pay closer attention than America's has to whether this is a good way to spend money.
The sprawling British estate is where Downton Abbey is shot, the wildly popular PBS series that depicts daily life in a British mansion during the early 20th century.
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