Football or fascism? The ugly politics of flying the England flag
After a nationalist campaign saw the English flag hoisted onto lampposts across the country last summer, the sight of the St George’s cross during the ongoing World Cup is making many Brits feel alienated and afraid
Black News 
I was walking through Camberwell in early June when a flash of brilliant white caught my eye. Two flags, each emblazoned with the St George’s cross, hung suspended from the windows of a first floor flat, billowing in the breeze like pillow cases on a washing line. The usual feelings swelled in my chest – anxiety, then sadness, eventually concretising into anger – the sensation all too familiar following the spate of anti-immigration flag-raising in the summer of 2025.hellip;
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