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But Rule, Britannia! can feel 'alienating' to others ... to be 'accessible to everyone' and it was 'a good debate for us to be having'. She was responding to a question about the view of cellist ...

Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory could ... it raises people's spirits, it brings us together." Lebrecht went on to say he feels the whole row boils down to the use of the word "slaves ...