"‘A mini Battle of Cable Street’: the English neighbourhoods still grappling with the meaning of the flags"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/04/english-neighbourhoods-disputes-flag-flying-nationalism

'The controversy over flags has faded from the national agenda – but street by street, late at night and with ingenious equipment, their raising and removal is the subject of a roiling dispute over local identity'

#flagshaggers #UK #England #EnglishNationalism #Nationalism

#MartinRowson on the #Caerphilly #byelection – cartoon | Martin Rowson | The Guardian

Just a reminder, #StGeorge wasn’t even English. #Farage would have happily had him deported given that he was a #Palestinian #Turk.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/24/martin-rowson-on-the-caerphilly-byelection-cartoon

#UK #Wales #Politics #Satire #EnglishNationalism #Nationalism #PlaidCymru

Mike Nesbitt Highlights English Nationalism as Key Threat to Northern Ireland's Union Status

Mike Nesbitt, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), is expected to address the growing threat of English nationalism in his speech at the party's annual conference in Belfast. In his remarks, he will emphasize that Irish nationalists are no longer seen as the primary threat to Northern Ireland'... [More info]

Whatever shreds of dignity & credibility still lingering about the Conservative Party just went up in smoke with this front page.

A smarter man once observed "Brexit eats its children".

Well, Brexit ate the #Conservative Party & what come out stank of Farage.

#Tories
#Badenoch
#Brexit
#EnglishNationalism
#frogfacedgrifter

Just heard a BBC R3 announcer speak of "commemorating the ENGLISH [sic] American and Canadian forces..."

Completely unconcious, it seems, of the irony of a colleague having just spoken of the "lone piper" at dawn on Gold.

8 long years of relentless #EnglishNationalism has completely addled the brains of too many. It shrank Great Britain to Little England, and the ignorance and exceptionalism it has fostered is pitiful.

Difficult to overstate significance of this decision. Repressive secondary legislation signed by ex-Home Secretary Suella 'Trainee Photocopyist' Braverman 'KC' has been quashed by the Court, (of which she is an Officer & servant by reason of her status as Kings Counsel).

#EnglishNationalism fought the law every step of the way, from prerogative, prorogation, 'limited & specific' breaches of International Law, to failing to endorse ICC orders.

And we know who wins.

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/court-finds-government-anti-protest-legislation-unlawful-after-liberty-legal-challenge/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68131541

#Sunak 'disappointed' he presided over the enactment of a crappy divisive authoritarian law that no-one wants & no-one will invoke.

'Disappointed' he has moved the #Tory Party further into the margins of irrelevance to the needs & interests of commerce.

'Disappointed' to discover that declaratory statutes attempting to rule by decree & coercion are not worth the paper they are written-on.

Not as 'disappointed' as the Electorate is in his useless #EnglishNationalism

A local undertaker's firm marketing itself with a full double-frontage 'lest we forget'.

I'm done with the fetishisation of 'Remembrance'; 2 min silences, cut-outs in the office foyer & public spaces, the parade of gormless ex-PMs. 
All WWI veterans are dead & few WW2 still with us. This isn't about 'educating' next generations, but about those generations who took no part, confronting our own transience. The frenzy has risen with the resurgence of brash #EnglishNationalism, & i reject both.