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19 Mar, 6 tweets, 1 min read
I agree: I rather liked the fact that (compared to e.g. the US) you tended not to see the UK flag much, either on display in everyday life or behind politicians. That sentiment is nothing to do with (lack of) patriotism: it's a dislike of performative patriotism.
King Lear's daughters come to mind: the ones who most loudly proclaim their emotions on demand are not necessarily those who genuinely have the emotion.
See also "Sense and Sensibility", passim.
Both works far more profoundly English than flag-waving.
See also Orwell: "In England all the boasting and flag-wagging, the 'Rule Britannia' stuff, is done by small minorities."
And the irony is that forgetting that very English suspicion of performative patriotism (or performative expressions of sentiment generally) makes us more like other countries: more European, even.

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