FOR ST. GEORGE AND MERRY ENGLAND!

I am not sure I agree fully with this writer. I think St. George advocates are just using what they can to counter discrimination against the English and Englishness. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em:

"In recent years there have been rumblings about celebrating Englishness, and establishing St George's Day as a national holiday. This might seem strange at a time when multiculturalism dominates public life and national chauvinism is frowned on, but celebrating St George's Day is perfectly in keeping with the politics of diversity. In fact, the whole thing proceeds by analogy with every other tinpot national celebration, and reeks of oppression-envy.... All this might please those who want to reinvent Englishness as an expression of diversity and tolerance, but it's hard to see anyone getting excited about that. Far from cohering the country in national feeling, an official St George's Day holiday would merely confirm Englishness as just another (rather weak) cultural identity in the multicultural mix of modern Britain. A national holiday to celebrate English culture? It's political correctness gone mad."