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Article: HE'S BACK,BY GEORGE! For years the Left derided him while thugs hijacked his flag. Now England has once again embraced its patron saint. Here, on the eve of St George's Day, a historian explains whywe nowneed him more than ever.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2006
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Byline: SIR ROY STRONG
AT THE grammar school I went to on London's North Circular Road in the late Forties, the pupils were divided into four competing clans representing the four component parts of the United Kingdom: St Andrew for Scotland, St David for Wales, St Patrick for Ireland and, of course, St George for England.
To my great distress I was assigned to St Andrew when my loyalty lay with St George.
Such a grouping today would be out of court. It would be seen as divisive, non-inclusive and too overtly Christian. But, looking back, it seems to me not a bad way of reminding today's youth of the makeup of their own country, even in these ...