Peter Hoskin

Happy St George’s Day

It’s St George’s Day today, so – if you haven’t already – do check out the special articles from the latest issue of the Spectator, and have your say on England in this Coffee House thread.

There’s also plenty of relevant coverage in today’s papers, including a Jack Straw article for the Daily Mail. Here’s what the Justice Minister has to say:

“One of the things which makes me most angry are people who try to claim the St George’s flag for the far Right…

…It wasn’t owned by any political party – least of all the BNP. It was about England.

Anyone proud to be English is equally proud of St George and what, down the ages, his myth and his flag have come to represent for this nation within the United Kingdom.

For years the far Right have tried to swathe themselves in the Cross of St George and insinuate that they and their kind have an exclusive right to use it, that they could determine what it meant to be English – with the message that if you weren’t white, you weren’t English.

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