This is the kind of Britain we must now strive to become

‘Britain needs to look out and up and stride towards its future, not wallow in its past.’ Photograph: Sally Anscombe/Getty

Martin Kettle is right to highlight the need for “great” Britain to establish a more nuanced and inclusive place in the world. (Let’s stop talking about ‘great’ Britain – and rebrand ourselves a different sort of country, 11 April). The rebrand must include a rejection of our ridiculous and continuing national claims of exclusiveness and superiority, a recognition that money isn’t quite so important as health and happiness, and that kindness, tolerance and togetherness are ingrained in the collective British blood.

I would further insist that no politician is allowed to mention or exemplar the second world war ever again on penalty of long-term exclusion from the House. Britain needs to look out and up, and stride towards its future, not wallow in its past.
Jasper Dorgan
Edington, Wiltshire