BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, AUG 30, 2026 – 09:30 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
Britain’s largest local authority has spent a year treating the Union Flag and the St George’s Cross as a public-order problem. On Saturday the picture sharpened again: the legal squeeze now circulating around Birmingham’s flag war is being described as a ban aimed at England and the United Kingdom, while other national colours keep their place in the city’s official life.
Birmingham City Council has gone to the High Court to stop "unauthorised attachments" on the highway. Breach of an injunction of this kind can mean unlimited fines and up to two years in prison.
The people named in the papers are the campaigners who put British flags on lampposts. But the council still finds time to raise other nations’ flags outside the town hall and light the city library in foreign colours. To top it all off, they have reportedly confirmed that anyone raising foreign flags will be exempt from the new ban.
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