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In a message dated 24/10/2006 11:20:23 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: _http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6074202.stm_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6074202.stm) When I was in Zimbabwe the folk used to see USA and UK as one and the same. tony Blair and Bill Clinton just brothers! Now I have arguments with my ten year old. The British Isles, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, England, London, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Eire and no name on the stamps. I must say it's hellishly complicated: history, politics, nomenclature, nation-state, country, nation ... I get confused myself. Forgive the children, surely!