This all seems self-evident to me, but for some people...
16 February 2026
"Only by studying the past can people understand the society they live in. We are the heirs to those in this country that came before us, whether or not they were our biological ancestors. The decisions they made and actions they took affect how we live today. This book has tried to look at the lives of the earliest English, peoples who invaded and settled this land, as many had done before and as many have done since. Theirs was a multicultural society. Yet, in the early twenty-first century, we are so ignorant of this that an MP can complain of asylum seekers diluting the Anglo-Saxon gene pool. If we could come to terms with the fact that the English people in particular are the product of invaders, settlers, slaves and traders from throughout the world since the earliest humans walked here, then perhaps we could learn to understand and celebrate our rich and wonderful culture rather than seeing our diverse origins as barriers."
Samantha Glaswell, The Earliest English: Living and Dying in Early Anglo-Saxon England, 2002.