Tag: st George
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Wake up and smell … the class war
The removal of an England flag from a Portsmouth housing block is exactly the kind of minor incident that the far right seizes upon and inflates into a national outrage. A dispute about communal property or fire regulations is presented as proof that “you are no longer allowed to be English”. The facts become secondary.…
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St. George’s Day
As it was St George’s day recently (and apparently again soon due to it being too close to Easter) it’s worth writing something about it. We always hear the same things around this time. Liberals will point out that St. George wasn’t even English, he was Turkish. Nationalists will paint their faces and chant “England…