A letter to the Daily Telegraph which was published on 20th March 1997.

The proposal by two Liberal Democrat MPs that the Union flag should be replaced as our national flag (report, March 19th) is typical of the many denaturalised, metro-people who gravitate to the Liberal Democrats.

With the Stars and Stripes, the Union flag is the most instantly recognised flag in the whole world.

It is universally accepted as a symbol of Britishness and as such is part of the flags of four Canadian provinces, six Australian states, the national flags of New Zealand and Australia, the Red and White Ensigns and innumerable regimental flags in all four Old Commononwealth countries.

The Union flag is above all the flag of freedom which desperate people have sheltered under and men have died for.  But Lib Dems – their heads buzzing with millennial chatter – wouldn’t understand that.

A letter to the Daily Telegraph which was published on 18th October 1993.

Hardly anything exposes more explicitly the rottenness at the heart of much of British officialdom than the Food from Britain Agency’s decision to suppress the use of the Union flag in its logo because it was “probably not allowed under EC regulations” (report, Oct 15th).

As Christopher Booker has cogently exposed week after week, there is a positive desire among many British bureaucrats to exaggerate and impose EC regulations on Britain in place of the sort of robust sentiment they ought to have – “This is my country and I will display its flag as I choose”.

In a similar spaniel-like fawning on the supposed wishes of foreigners, the British Airports Authority and the Sea Ports Authorities suppress the phrase “British passports” in favour of “EC Nationals”.  This phrase is inaccurate, has no legal standing and deeply offensive to millions of true British subjects.