Merthyr also had the smallest proportion of people who described themselves as English (4%) or both English and British (less than 1%).

BBC: Welsh rugby fans

Most French officials speak English and studied in British or American colleges.

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It won't happen if people live here not learning English or not understanding the values that make us British.

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More than 90% of England and Wales residents identified themselves as at least one of: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, or British.

BBC: Census shows rise in foreign-born

Instead of seeing ourselves as English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, we have felt British.

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Tracey Emin is a controversial English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists).

BBC: Tracey Emin to appear at festival

By that time English (or any other modern language) could be as dead as Parthian or Linear A, and the British government as dim a memory as the pharaohs are today.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

No longer a British party or a national party, it's just, it's just an English party?

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The British National Party is predicting "one or two surprises" when the results of Thursday's English local election are revealed.

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