Re: The trouble with the British...
> The latest ruse seems to be to start waving the Union Flag at every opportunity as a means of pacifying the populace.
It's far more banal than that: it's copying the Americans. Some media PR pipsqueak with zero imagination has finally noticed - only 30 years after the fact - that most American politicians have a flag in their offices and has decided for 'reasons' that ours must do the same.