On the journey of making my new documentary film “Quintessentially British,” I encountered some quirky lords, charming knights, irrepressible dames and Shakespeare-quoting taxi drivers. I grew up in ...

A still from a video showing patriotism campaigners about to attach a St George’s flag to a lamppost in Tower Hamlets A second council has vowed to remove English or British flags that have been ...

London (CNN) — 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, ...

For many years, the English flag was an ambivalent symbol—the flag of the Crusaders who raided medieval Jerusalem, the flag of imperial conquest, and a flag appropriated by the white nationalists of ...

LONDON — England’s flag flutters in pub gardens, is painted onto the faces of smiling children and is waved in support of the national women’s soccer team by cheering crowds that reflect the capital’s ...

England’s distinctive red-and-white St. George’s Cross and iconic Union Jack flags are making a comeback across the United Kingdom, with supporters calling the resurgence patriotic while critics in ...

Bitter debate about immigration in the United Kingdom has triggered a new trend of flying English and British flags in a vivid show of patriotism spearheaded in part by far-right figures. Usually ...

A GREAT-grandad is proudly flying his 50-year-old flag for Remembrance Day after it was removed by the council last month. Former merchant navy worker Ray Betts, 86, has flown the flag outside his ...

Across England, flags are visible like never before. They are being hoisted on lamp-posts. Hastily painted representations of the St George’s flag, typically little more than a couple of red lines ...

Sir Gareth Southgate has warned that a growing row about flying the Union Flag or St George’s Cross risked wrecking national ...