SO in Mr Ellel (Letters, April 24) we have yet another unreasoning obsessive, nostalgia for what has been - Empire and the evils of colonialism.
For me, the Union Jack is the symbol - as is institutionalised religion - of oppression of slavery (including white) which scoundrels hoisted prior to the desecration of the trusting, unbrutalised peoples they chose to subjugate.
Nay! Rather a cause for feelings of shame, not of pride, to be flown only at half-mast for its own demise. Let me feast my eyes only on the flags of the liberated.
N. Andrews
Noble Street
Great HarwoodA"
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