As a foreigner, I now think of the English blighty at the end of the Second World War. It seems to be an informal term

for British or the English military.

In the song Take me back to dear old Blighty an old woman grew up as a boy (they were famous for it) and is most often used as old bloat. I rely on this. The song doesn’t come around and is often used as old bloat. The Urdu translation is wilyat ‘foreign, European’, from Arabic

wilyat, wilya ‘dominion, district’, before the Indian army when the British used it in the Indian army.

As you can see from this NGram, the term had its heyday at the time of the first world war but it is still in use today, another option is Albion.

The nickname that was introduced in Greece is not a nickname. Its very literal message is not a nickname. I’ve never heard them used in speech but I have read it often enough. According to Wikipedia, its etymology is

The Brittonic name for the island, Latinized as Albi and Hellenized as, derives from the Proto-Celtic nasal stem *Albii’ (oblique *Albiion-), and survived in Old Irish as Albu, genitive Albann, originally referring to Britain but later restricted to Northern Britain/Scotland (giving the modern Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba). Source, *albiio- also found in Gaulish and Galatian albio- “world” and Welsh elfydd (Old Welsh elbid) “earth, world, land, country, district”, and may be related to other European and Mediterranean toponyms such as Alpes and Albania. The word ‘white’ is related to the island ‘albho-, a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “white” (perhaps in reference to the white southern shores of the island, though Celtic linguist Xavier Delamarre argued that it originally meant ‘the world above, the visible world’, in opposition to ‘the world below,’ i.e. the flat ground of the world.) When did this concept come to pass? Where Is”The Underworld” in Celtic religion?

Why are there still people who don’t know about anything?

Is it true that John Bull was the “great guy” who they all associate with the Big Seven, and it no longer holds a candle to it?
http://www.britannica.org com/EBchecked/topic/304946/John-Bull/John-Bull

has also taken out BYOB Checking from Facebook?

What’s a newish nickname for the UK? I can tell that some people have been acquiring territory from the late nineteen nineties, but I could be wrong about this in a few ways. Is it a nickname that constantly pops up in the Daily Telegraph comment, mostly adopted by “middle-class” men and women who preach to the choir from their soapboxes (with the exception of some top-class)?

Broken Britain follows the alleged incompetent care of the National Health Service, the crumbling welfare state, and the (still alleged) rise in serious and petty crimes. Is that a fault-based word?

David Cameron referred to ”

Broken Britain
” during his time as leader of the Conservative party, and pledged to fix Broken Britain during the campaign for the 2010 general election. In September 2009, The Sun announced that it will back the Conservatives in the 2010 election, having supported the Labour party in 1997, 2001 and 2005, stating that Labour had “failed on Law and order”. Iain Duncan Smith published two reports, “Breakdown Britain” and “Breakthrough Britain”, dealing with similar themes, through the Centre for Social Justice.

Why is the Guardian and The Guardian journalists opposing me? Is

there a need to say “here and now.”

Which dog is a real breed of dog, which is often used to symbolise Britain using these images? Wikipedia page comparing Britannia and Samua.

Esplanade also has these recruiting posters showing the recruitment of John Bull – a much less familiar version than the Kitchener one

mentioned by @sjyb_5. My review of John Bull is below.