Red, White and Resented? England’s New Flag Politics - Hungarian Conservative

Red, White and Resented? England’s New Flag Politics - Hungarian Conservative

It has become a sad feature of contemporary English life that those who most embody the virtues of quiet patriotism, its restraint, modest pride and fortitude, are often those most liable to be accused of xenophobia the moment they unfurl our national flag. In any other country, such a gesture is met with approval or, at worst, benign indifference. In England, it is met with suspicion. When the cross of St George flutters from a window, it is as…