Englishness

Much has been made in the press recently about Englishness and what it means.

I think the responses to my suspected TB (sorry to harp on but there's not much going on here at the moment) are typically English: "crumbs", "oh gosh" and "crikey" and two links to a BBC article about Bill Gates giving $600 million to fight tuberculosis along with the lines "why don't you see if you can get a slice?" and "blimey you have a fan...Bill has heard and rushed to the rescue".