![]() ![]() I think, for a time, that succeeded, and it probably culminated in winning the Olympic bid in 2005. My idea was to take what I think are the enduring best qualities of Britain – open-mindedness, tolerance, innovation – and try to give Britain a different narrative that would allow it to think its best days are ahead of it. TB Britain finds it very difficult to tell a story about itself, because there is a narrative that supposes our best days are behind us, and that’s caught up in what happened in the Second World War: Churchill defeated Nazism, Britain’s finest hour. The Britain you grew up in, were educated in, became a barrister in, got into politics in – what was that Britain telling the world about who it was, and why did you come to think that story needed to change? ![]() MS When we were making The Queen, it seemed as if the story Britain told about itself had changed. Tony Blair That was generous, if inaccurate. I remember Stephen Frears, who directed two of the films where I played you, said “Don’t ever forget that these are the smartest people in the room, always.” Michael Sheen I have a lot of cognitive dissonance when it comes to you, because it’s like seeing a family member or something. ![]() ![]() Introduced and chaired by Anoosh Chakelian, the NS Britain editor ![]()
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