The Union Jack is back. No TV interview with a government minister is complete without a flag and their departments have been ordered to hoist them above their offices. Soon our country will look like a never-ending Golden Jubilee street party, but with neither refreshments nor festivities.
We’d all like a street party, but many are embarrassed by constant flag waving, especially when the flag in question is the Union Jack. The students of London’s Pimlico Academy were so put out by the idea of flags that they even went as far as to argue that the Union Jack flying outside their school was an emblem of racism, demanding that the headteacher took it down. Since it’s now the job of pupils and protestors to decide school rules, he duly granted them their wishes.
It seems some flags are more palatable than others. If you don’t like the Union Jack, there are plenty of others to choose from:
The Flag of Europe
The EU flag is ideal for anyone who no longer feels themselves to be ‘British’.
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