Dad, how come rich people don fly flags and show they e patriotic?
AMID ALL THE pessimism concerning the alienation of young Muslims from mainstream society, it’s cheering to report that a significant number of cars driven by Bengali youths in the East End of London are flying England flags. Some display two, and the clapped-out Ford that almost knocked me off my bike and into the Whitechapel Road on Monday sported four. This development gives me no end of pleasure. I pedal happily on my way, heart rate returning to normal, reflecting that if I am to be mown down in my prime, it’s good to know that the 18-year-old maniac doing the mowing is well on his way to becoming a fellow patriot. Perhaps it helps that Bangladesh is not represented in Germany, yet meanwhile, a friend reports a car flying the diagonal stripe of Trinidad & Tobago from one window and the Cross of St George from the other, which sounds like an admirably British fudge. But would it be enough to satisfy Norman Tebbit? And, when the crunch came and the two teams actually met last Thursd
