In praise of flag-shagging
To govern Britain, it helps to like it
There are no prizes for subtlety in British politics. But there are prizes for the winners of “Tapp Into Reading”, a scheme where children in Dover and Deal, the constituency home to the White Cliffs, compete to perform the best theatrical reading of patriotic VE Day-themed literature. It is the brainchild of its Labour mp, Mike Tapp, a military veteran who since his election in 2024 has taken to generating AI pictures of himself in the style of first-world-war recruitment posters captioned: “YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU TO UNITE AGAINST FAKE PATRIOTS”.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “In praise of flag-shagging ”
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