Bearly Newsworthy: What Price Belonging?

Bearly Newsworthy: What Price Belonging?

In February 2022, I became a citizen of the United Kingdom.At that stage, things were still a bit lockdown-adjacent, so instead of going to my local town hall for the usual ceremony, I swore my oath of allegiance to a framed photo of the late Queen Elizabeth II, held up by a lovely council officer on a Zoom call. It wasn’t quite the stirring moment I might have imagined a few years earlier – no brass band, no tea and biscuits, no bunting – but I…