Scene Quote by Hussein Chalayan

London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always…

— Doris Lessing

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

— Alan Moore

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think…

— Jeremy Thomas

Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.

— David Starkey

I very much consider myself British.

— Ainsley Harriott

When I lived in London I didn't know any English people, apart from my wife. So my nationality was never relevant. I was a…

— Jack Savoretti

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in…

— Helen Mirren

We're seen as more part of an English scene.

— Russell Mael

I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city,…

— John Cleese

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are…

— Linda Colley

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.

— Nigel Farage

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

— Nigel Farage