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Patriot games: how toxic is the England flag today?
Stuart Jeffries: Some people sneer at it, Ed Miliband claims to respect it and it has been embraced by the English Defence League and British Muslim football fans alike. But can the St George’s flag ever escape its nationalistic associations?
I knock on the door. There is an England flag draped from one upstairs window and two union jacks hanging from another. Let’s not pretend I am unhappy that nobody’s home.
“Hello, I’m from the Guardian. I’m writing a think piece to test the suggestion that the St George flag is a semantically rich signifier, its display betokening scarcely sublimated racism on the part of a beleaguered white working-class population in the face of mass immigration. Any thoughts?”
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