If, like me, you spend too much time on social media you’ll have noticed a recurring theme in recent days: horror at the phenomenon of flags with the cross of St George starting to appear across much of the country.

That’s hardly a surprise; social media has always been awash with left-wing types, for whom patriotism is racism under a different name, and who seem to do nothing but parrot all the usual dull cliches. But today’s version of those cliches turns out to be interesting – because it reveals a double standard so jarring as to be off the scale.

The England flag is upsetting only to those who choose to be upset by it

It was back in 2014 that Emily Thornberry tweeted a now legendary picture of a house with three England flags draped across the front, with the caption ‘Image from #R

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