As the Channel tunnel turns 30, England needs to grow up and acknowledge its deep bond with France | Jonn Elledge

The two countries have been been at odds over the centuries. But couldthere a better symbol of our link than this engineering coup?The first passenger train from England to France carried Queen Elizabeth II to Calais on 6 May 1994. Trains carrying less exalted passengers would not set off until November of that year, and the more arresting image of English and French engineers shaking hands beneath the sea had come four years earlier. Officially, though, today is the day: the Channel tunnel is 3