Pictures: the UK unity rally in Trafalgar Square

The point of being British is not banging on about being British. But when your country is three days away from being dissolved – in part because the emotional case for the UK has not been made properly – then people do start to say what their national identity means to them. The long list of Spectator readers’ letters was one example, and we were delighted to welcome a bunch of them for tea in the garden of at 22 Old Queen Street this afternoon.

Spectator readers (apart from ones in front of the flag: they’re soon-to-be-readers)

As you can see, we had four younger readers – this kind of captured the spirit of the rally. It was about family, in every way: people like me, who quite like being countrymen with other members of their family and don’t want to see that changed because we live five hours down the road. And even Americans, who know and value the idea of unity and wish for people from all parts of the UK keep that advantage.