The historian and Labour MP believes the celebration of Britain should be welcomed by conservatives tooDanny Boyle might not have known it, but it was the spirit of interwar writer JB Priestley which hovered over his wonderful, iconoclastic, urgent and era-defining Olympic pageant.In his 1934 work, English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the first being the so-called "real, enduring England" which spoke t…
