It’s hard to pinpoint when it happened – the exact moment when the England flag went from being a benign show of patriotism to a dog-whistle call to racism. At one point, the St George’s flag was even ...

In the United States, the Stars and Stripes are everywhere: on porches, lawns and pickup trucks. The national flag is part of the scenery, almost invisible in its ubiquity. In England, flags are rarer ...