Birmingham Didn’t Ban Your Flag - They Just Need to Change the Lightbulbs

Inside the Culture-War Battle Where Street Maintenance Becomes “Labour hates Britain” - and Why It's Just So Much More Boring Than That

Flags.

People can get very passionate about them.

And on this subject, to a very large extent, I do actually get it.

I grew up in a country where we swapped one flag for another in a single, history-laden leap - the old orange, white, and blue South African flag lowered for the last time, replaced by the now-familiar rainbow design. Even though I was but a…