Give us a new national anthem for Britain – and England | Open thread

With the Olympics and Euro 2012 approaching, let us know the perfect anthems for our 'big society' timesEarlier this month, Israeli supreme court justice Salim Joubran declined to sing the Israeli national anthem at the installation of the court's new president. As an Israeli Arab, he could not sing such lyrics as "a Jewish soul yearns," which are in Hatikva.Joubran's protest highlighted that one fifth of Israeli citizens could not sing those words without hypocrisy, since they are not Jewish, p...

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