Schools should 'revive national pride' on St George's Day in direct challenge to 'anti-patriotic elites', urges academic

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Britons have expressed their disappointment at the lack of acknowledgement for St George's Day, telling GB News they think it should be celebrated more.Speaking to GB News, in Paddington, central London, most Britons stressed the importance of celebrating the nation's patron saint, while some admitted they do not celebrate the occasion.One man told GB News: "On St George's Day, I wouldn't choose personally to fly the St George's Day flag.

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Not for any particular reason, it's just that I don't celebrate the day itself." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say In contrast, another Briton declared that it is a "great thing" to remember and celebrate the country's heritage.He stressed: "Well, it's England's patron saint, isn't it?

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I think it's important we remember our history, and I think it's a great thing."Another told GB News what celebrating the patron saint of St George means to them, and how he is "proud" to be English.He said:...

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Schools should "revive national pride" as part of a direct challenge to the nation's "anti-patriotic elites", an academic has told GB News.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, an academic who is now director of the campaign group Don't Divide Us, argued that schools should place greater emphasis on national education on St George's Day.Ahead of this year's celebrations for England's patron saint, Ms Sehgal Cuthbert told GB News: "The English flag, like the flag of other nations, is not reducible to a single meaning - good or bad."For too long, the dominant cultural and intellectual narrative has been that England, and by extension Britain, was once regarded as the source of all progress and moral worth but has now been revealed as the opposite: the source of all that is wrong and unjust.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say "This is not true but remains influential among those with cultural power."In this context, raising the flag is best seen as a first, spontaneous response; one that recognises that...

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