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    The ties that bind a nation: Unifying narratives to the rescue?

    Apr 15, 2021 3 minutes

    It must have seemed simply the right thing to do. When Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died last Friday shortly before his 100th birthday, Britain’s broadcasters tore up their usual schedules. For 36 hours, they filled the airwaves with tributes, special news coverage, and a train of admiring retrospectives.

    Yet a huge number of Britons turned off or tuned out. More than a hundred thousand went so far as to contact the BBC to complain.

    This wasn’t out of personal animus toward Philip. Something

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