On This England, revealing that this ‘heritage’ quarterly which favours cottages, steam engines, choirboys and old shepherd’s smocks, also has a toxic undercurrent connecting it with the far right. Published in the Guardian, 18 August 1993.
YOU CAN walk into any branch of W H Smith and pick up a copy of This England. Launched from
The starting impulse was proudly provincial. As the publisher of six county magazines, Faiers reckoned that the time was right to project the same values at a national level. Convinced that parochialism was a virtue, he hoisted the flag of St George in his first issues: ‘Instead of politics, we shall bring you the poetry of the English countryside . . . Instead of bigotry, we shall portray the beauty of our towns and villages’…
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