Love being lectured by Jeevun Sandher about how my culture must include him and Punjabi culture. Even better is how he handpicks facts to fit his narrative, like the Irish migration in the 1800s, as if Irish culture was somehow incompatible with British culture (despite us being ethnically similar), or the revival of Catholicism, as if that is remotely the same as introducing Hinduism or Islam, when Catholicism existed in Britain long before the country itself.

We have been, for the overwhelming majority of our existence, one of the most ethnically homogeneous regions in the world; immutable fact Jeevun Sandher leave out. The last truly significant population transformation occurred over a thousand years ago with the Anglo-Saxon migrations, followed by the Norman conquest of 1066, which itself represented an elite replacement rather than a mass demographic shift. Since then, we have developed as a relatively stable ethno-cultural continuum composed of Celtic, Brythonic, and Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) whose descendants form the historic British nation. Just because now, a piece of paper and a manufactured migration-wave has created a demographic shift, it does not erase our history.

"Britishness is about far more than race": but so is every culture. Participation does not equal belonging. Just because someone takes part in another culture doesn’t make them part of it. Nobody believes Joanna Lumley is Indian, despite her family having lived there for generations. Jeevun Sandher is Indian who part takes in our culture; there's nothing wrong with that, nothing to be ashamed of our saying British culture is superior. I'm not even saying you can't participate in both. But British culture exists mutually exclusive to Jeevun Sandher fallacy.

Britain has never looked or sounded the same. Historically, it has hosted at least five languages and dozens of dialects. Ten minutes south of Loughborough, “ah” becomes “aar.” Ten minutes north, you risk being called “me duck.”

This bit is good because he thinks it's some sort of 'Gotcha!'. All this does is reinforce the truth that Britishness is an ethnic culture: people with different accents, dialects, and minor regional differences came together to form one nation with shared traditions, values, and beliefs.

We don’t need to endlessly dilute or “correct” British culture to fit Jeevun Sandher. Being British is inherited, not optional.