Arts and humanities research has never had greater impact potential

Some of the "culture wars" in Britain seem to arise because we import our higher culture from the USA. Creating - or indeed first of all recalling - our own culture sounds like a good cause.

True enough: the impact of globalisation, I suspect, though in recency a disentangling has occurred and new forms of nationalism have transpired or ordained this (Trumpestani impacts?). As for calling it 'higher culture', I wouldn't know. Those kinds of hierarchies or ordering have long since been abandoned, or am I mistaken? And despite the trend towards new expressions of nationalism (The Ukraine? Russia?) isn't a major aspect of 'culture warring' WITHIN various polities (Gender politics? New intersectionalities, combining gender, class and ethnicity, that I'd call polyculturalism? Etc?)