Is decency in decline? For this interviewee, pride in Britain stems from heritage, culture, history and something more intangible: its decency—a quality he feels is in decline. It made us wonder: what does decency mean in a national context? Is it about how a country treats others as expressed through policy and political pronouncements? How its people treat each other? How its people treat those from beyond their borders? Or: when one speaks about “decency” is one actually alluding to a set of