The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up.

He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

It was important that those guys have Anglo-Saxon names.

It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.