"What Englishness can't do that Britishness can do is appeal unambiguously to people ofdifferent ethnic origins, " notes Janan Ganesh, political correspondent for The Economist.
It also combines, in numerous cases, with the political mobilization of previously passive populations who lived on the margins of society, often of indigenous origins, who speak different dialects.
The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, the medieval originsof primogeniture and evolutionary biology are all enlisted to shed light on different aspects of financial risk.