What if things were...
better? In the past fortnight alone, – taking with it the regressive Rwanda plan and a ban on onshore wind licences – while the English football team entered the final stages of the European Championships. There is a sense of optimism to life in the United Kingdom, where things are not good, but might (might) be improving. Hundreds of thousands of English people will experience a rare moment of national pride this weekend when England competes against Spain in the Euros, and hinted at a bank holiday should we win, which is not the kind of legislature that will protect the country against the far right or cost-of-living crisis, but.
.. it would be nice? Patriotism, of course, looks different on different groups of people.
Some football fans, for example, deploy jumbo-sized red flares in unholy ways – which is perhaps the most authentic expression of “ ” to have surfaced during the 2020 Euros – while others shop the #blokecore hashtag on Depop. (This might be the difference between being the kind of person who understands the offside rule and being the kind of person who does not.) A series of identifiable themes has emerged in the clothing choices of English spectators across the 2024 Euros, too, which has become as much a reason to as .
There are the aspirant WAGs in their clean-girl athleisure, home counties “lads” and their baby tee girlfriends, and then there are fashion people who typically do not care about football but might happen .