Today (23 April) is St. George’s Day! Let the pageantry begin. Let the joy be unconfined. Get the dragon down from the loft!
No. That’s not happening. The English take little pride in St. George.
In fact, I suspect the majority of English people could not tell you the exact date of the day of their patron saint. But no one seems to mind. The English take great pride in how little pride we take in our national saint.
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I was born in the mid-1970s when there were three television channels in the UK: BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. That …