2010-08-26
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However, for design guru Stephen Bayley, the passport’s references to our maritime history, dry stone walls and Blenheim Palace are nothing more than cliches, symbolising the “British disease of a soft-focus nostalgia for a past that never was”.
BBC News, quoting Stephen Bayley, asking What do new passport images say about modern Britain?