http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons

Someone at the DCMS seems to have taken one of those pub conversations and made a career out of it. Anyway, here is is in all its glory, a website asking you to nominate and vote on icons of Englishness.

Of course I'm sure all you naughty foreigners wouldn't do what the English would do and try to vote a pair of knickers top of the poll...

(I voted for the Spitfire and the stiff upper lip myself, hurrah for Blighty...)