Mastodawn

I keep hearing a lot about 'British Values', and as someone born and educated in Britain I'm not entirely sure what those values are, or who gets to decide what they are. I went to our governments website to find out, and it appears British Values are comma separated. Glad I cleared that up. #british #culture

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Benjohn 3d ago

@RichBartlett it’s interesting that people with strong opinions about “British Values” invariably seem to have ones I find abhorrent, and extremely un “British”.

But here is a lovely (and quite canny and well timed) piece of interfaith solidarity, which I find tremendously excellent, and very much the sort of thing I would want to hope Britain considers as a value. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/20/attorney-general-richard-hermer-kemi-badenoch-public-prayer

Attorney general asks if Kemi Badenoch would object to Jewish public prayer

Exclusive: Richard Hermer, who is Jewish, says Tory leader and shadow minister seem ‘to only have an issue with Muslim events’

The Guardian

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RichBartlett

@benjohn I think that's British in both kindness, and as an act of dissent against the general slide into the racism which the Labour party often seems to tolerate or even echo.