We will be celebrating the fact that we are English in the same way as the other parts of the UK celebrate on their own saint's day. There's a lot about my country that I love and am proud of even if I do not particularly like the way some of its denizens have behaved in the past or at present. It is a country of beauty - even driving up the A1 you can see some very pretty landscapes if you bother to look and the West Country and the Lakes are known the world over. We have a cultural heritage that takes in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Hardy, Turner (who was also born on 23 April), Britten, the Beatles......

I'm looking for a flag of St George over here in Maine - if I can't find one I may have to make one.