My ears pricked up as I heard the 6.00pm BBC news on Radio 4. Rishi Sunak, our prime minister, was making an official government apology to past victims of mistreatment in the armed forces, following a report by Lord Etherton into the plight of serving LGBT persons from 1967 to 2000. In it he used the phrase 'the British state'. I'd never heard that phrase before. I'd hitherto only heard the
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