Is identity simply about where you were born? In this interview, the concept of Britishness is taken at face value: that he was born in England makes him British—full stop. It’s a simple response to a question that can—socially, politically, philosophically, legally—be quite complex. And it certainly opens the door to bigger questions about how national identity is defined in a place as complex as the United Kingdom in the twenty-first century. What makes someone British? Is it something having