SIR - With reference to D E Margrett's recent letter, the flag of St George is the appropriate flag to display to show one's `Englishness' as, after all, it is the England team that was playing, not a British team.
There has never been a flag known as the `British' flag, as even before the act of Union in 1800 the flag was known as the Union flag of Great Britain (the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, dating from 1606 and finally ratified by two Acts of Parliament in 1707).
The Union flag we have today is the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (now only Northern) Ireland.
To have a British flag one would have to fly a Union flag of 1606 vintage design with St Patrick's saltire removed and that would be difficult if not impossible to obtain today. Not to mention the aggravation it would cause to those people of Northern Ireland who like to fly the Union flag!
FATHER ANTHONY SHAW,
Rector, the Oratory of Our Lady & St Francis of Assisi,
Worcester
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