28 h. ago Health bosses accused of 'hating Britain' after complaining that flags are 'intimidating' black and Asian NHS staff

NHS executives have warned that the presence of the St George and Union symbols are creating 'no-go zones'.

Society

33 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Are NHS bosses right to say St George's flags create a 'no go zone' for black and Asian staff who visit patients in their homes?

Staff feel threatened by the presence of the flags across the country, according to several NHS trust chief executives and leaders.

Science

45 h. ago St George’s flags create ‘no go zones’ for NHS staff, health leaders warn

NHS staff have felt ‘deliberately intimidated’ by St George’s flags, warned one trust leader

Events

49 h. ago St George’s flags are intimidating NHS staff from ethnic backgrounds, say health chiefs

Leaders of some trusts claim their large minority of black and Asian staff are scared to work in areas they visit to treat folk in homes where flags have been put up

Politics

5 d. ago Judge blasts Joey Barton for wearing union flag scarf to court

Judge criticises former Premier League footballer over ‘stunt’ as he was convicted of sending grossly offensive posts on X to Jeremy Vine, Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko

Events

7 d. ago Village told it cannot have Christmas lights unless England flags taken down

Harrietsham Parish Council said it may not be able to put up its Christmas lights due to the ‘financial implications’ of removing the flags

Politics

8 d. ago Village could go without Christmas lights because of St George flags on lampposts

A village has had the decorations every year – but the area's parish council says it cannot put them up this year until St George's flags flying from lampposts are taken down

Politics

8 d. ago Christmas lights can't go up because of St George flags on lampposts

The council says the lights may have to be cancelled this year unless people take down their flags

Politics

9 d. ago Sir Gareth Southgate says row over flying St George's flag risks wrecking national 'unity'

Sir Gareth Southgate has insisted there is more to ‘bond us all than separate us’

Events

2 w. ago Fake council letters warning families flying St George's flags they will be forced to home refugees are investigated by police

The hoax letter said that 'patriotic' households in Gloucestershire which display the flag will be forced to house refugees.

Events

2 w. ago ‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother

After grief brought Dev Hynes home, he reconsidered the county that shaped him. The result is a masterful new album – made with a little help from Lorde and Zadie SmithDevonté Hynes is telling me how he came to be living back in his childhood home in Ilford, east London, at the age of 37, after his mother had fallen ill. “It was a surreal experience,” he says of the sudden move from Brooklyn, where he makes music as Blood Orange, to sleeping in the bedroom where he once put up posters of David Beckham and the Smashing Pumpkins. “Physically, you’re bigger: your shape has changed. But the space is the same. The memories are the same.”Hynes came back to England to be by the bedside of his mother in hospital, and stayed at home a while after she died in 2023. This tragic disruptionproduced his fifth full-length release, Essex Honey, a clear contender for album of the year. It’s a record grounded by grief but fizzing with the memory flashes that came with returning home to the edge of Es...

Events

2 w. ago Disgraced Prince Andrew’s coat of arms banner REMOVED at Windsor Castle in ‘hugely symbolic’ moment

SHAMED Prince Andrew’s banner featuring his coat of arms has been removed at Windsor Castle. The flag had been on display next to William’s inside St George’s Chapel. It was raised in 2006 when Andrew was made a Knight of the Order of the Garter, a chivalric order founded in the 14th century. The removal...

Politics

3 w. ago ‘Why are our black boys hurting each other?’ Letitia Wright on the deaths that inspired her directorial debut

The Black Panther star made her name with intense roles in indie films before Marvel came calling. Now she’s telling her own stories, starting with a cast of ‘young kings’Days before we meet, Letitia Wright found herself cheek-by-jowl with a far-right march in London. This is the year when St George’s flags have been displayed in suburban windows and tied to lamp-posts, and when thousands of people – some more intimidating than others, especially to people of colour – have marched on the centre of the capital and beyond. A friend of Wright’s was visiting the city, and they had moseyed down to the South Bank, unaware of what awaited them. “It was jam-packed,” she says, recalling their struggle to get out of the fray. “I  was in the middle of it, and then I was out of it. They were doing their thing – and I was doing mine.”The actor has played refugees twice: once in the BBC Three drama Glasgow Girls, where she portrayed a Somali teenager, Amal, and then in the 2022 film Aisha, w...

Events

3 w. ago Pitch invaders disrupt League Two game in ‘Gary Neville is a traitor’ flag protest

Two men tried to plant flag of St George in centre circleFar-right group calls it protest against Neville’s ‘treachery’Salford’s League Two match against Oldham was briefly disrupted when two men tried to plant a flag of St George inside the centre circle at the Peninsula Stadium.The men entered the field during the first half wearing white hoodies displaying the message “Gary Neville is a traitor” before being removed by stewards and police. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Pitch invaders in 'Gary Neville is a traitor' hoodies tackled to ground while waving England flags as far

Football fans ran on to the pitch to protest against Gary Neville during Salford City's League Two clash with Oldham after his recent rant about the 'negative' use of the British flag. 

Events

3 w. ago Risk of wheel bashing and strategy sets up complicated US Grand Prix

McLaren’s total dominance has gone and Norris and Piastri’s title race head-to-head is no longer such a binary affairAt the mid-point of this season it might have been considered that the title fight between McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri would simply be decided by which driver had the edge to take the flag at each remaining meeting. Going into this weekend’s US Grand Prix, however, the contest has become far more complicated and far more interesting.While only 22 points separate the pair neither has now won for three races, the team’s longest drought of the season. Moreover, they have been beaten on merit across a variety of tracks. At the fast, low downforce challenge of Monza and Baku, where Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took the flag, and the slow, high downforce of Singapore, where Mercedes’ George Russell more than had their measure. Continue reading...

Sport

3 w. ago Revealed: Council that dubbed Brits who fly St George's and Union Jack flags 'far

EXCLUSIVE: The council previously prided itself on its displays of Palestine banners but used metal poles to rip down England flags during the peak of the 'Operation Raise the Colours' movement.

Politics