Tag: patriotism

Customers and online trolls have allegedly branded an east London cafe racist for putting small union flags on their sandwiches.

The Home Secretary has rejected a request for the United Kingdom to fly the national flag above all border posts, where people enter and leave the country, as many other nations do.

The Italian patriotic coalition has sent another shockwave through the country’s political establishment by appointing Marcello Foa, a populist supporter of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, to head the public broadcaster Rai.

An Afghanistan veteran has been running 15 miles a day for a year while wearing the iconic red Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap because, he said, “Showing support for the president and being patriotic should be a given in our country.”

Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez issued a bleak message for the Fourth of July, portraying the United States as a deeply troubled nation, and suggesting that President Donald Trump’s policies are to blame.

A patriotic Sikh trader who received abuse for flying the St George’s flag outside his shop in support for England at the World Cup has defiantly promised not to back down.

A crowd attending the Central Section Division I softball championship in Fresno on Friday evening burst into The Star-Spangled Banner after being told by the announcer that there would be no national anthem before the game.

The George-Soros backed Best for Britain is allegedly training activists to launch “ruthless” attacks on MPs in battleground marginal seats, including encouraging negative stories about them in the local and national press.

When President Donald Trump praised the NFL on Thursday for requiring players to stand during the National Anthem and suggested players should quit the game – or perhaps even the country – if they cannot abide by the rule, he put his finger on the vital pressure point in America’s great social divide: the definition of patriotism.

British Police have told English football fans going to the World Cup in Russia to not wave or display the St George flag, claiming it could be seen as “imperialistic” and “antagonistic”.

Populist independent UK MEP Janice Atkinson has demanded newly appointed Home Secretary Sajid Javid to start flying the Union flag and create a fast-track system for UK citizens at all ports of entry.

Patriotic Brits are increasingly fearful of showing their national pride in public for fear of abuse and ridicule, a study has found.

A private Christian college in Missouri will require its freshmen students to take a course with the goal of encouraging patriotism.

Football players from opposing NESCAC teams at Trinity College and Hamilton College took the singing of the national anthem into their own hands Saturday when a reported failed public address system led to an announcement there would be “no anthem.”

Charlie Daniels says while he is a “dyed in the wool football fan,” he suspects the NFL “has reached a tipping point,” as more Americans are expressing their disapproval of players protesting the national anthem.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) stated that people who say they’re more patriot than others exhibit “a shallow patriotism” and real patriots find ways to advance the US and unite it. Booker criticized the

The concluding passages of President Donald Trump’s address to the U.N. General Assembly sought to define and defend patriotism – not only for Americans, although naturally his focus was on the patriotic history of his own country. Trump called for a revival of patriotic spirit around the world, in the process delivering a backhanded slap to globalism without calling it out by name.

An anti-Brexit group wearing “thank EU for the Music” T-shirts will be handing out EU flags to concert goers of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms to lament what they see as the coming “Brexit Dark Ages” of culture.

Officials in King County, Washington, removed a memorial featuring the stars and stripes because one resident called it “offensive.” But citizens incensed over the removal flocked to the site and immediately put the display back up.

Incensed that Black Lives Matter-pushing, former San Francisco 49ers second string quarterback Colin Kaepernick has yet to find a new team after a season of constant anti-American protests, a columnist appearing in the Chicago Tribune has now proclaimed the NFL, and the nation, racists who display false patriotism.

A woman from Philadelphia has sparked fury across social media after she posted a video online in which she urinated on the American flag.

A member of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, has proposed banning individuals from holding their hearts with their hands during the playing of the national anthem, suggesting the gesture is too “American” for Chinese patriots.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski stated of President Trump, “I know it is a terrible thing to question someone’s patriotism, but you wonder what he cares about.” Brzezinski said, “I think, also, often — we were talking

Islam is a totalitarian ideology, not a religion, and therefore a Dutch constitutional commitment to freedom of religion shouldn’t apply to it, Geert Wilders has said.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that “Donald Trump is not a patriot, because a true patriot would say to Russia, ‘Look, even though you’re helping me, that’s not the way we win elections here.’”

English patriotism is on the rise, with increasing numbers of people identifying as solely English rather than British, a survey has found.

UKIP has vowed to fight back against the removal of Union Jack and St George’s flags currently being flown across a south east English town by the local council. UKIP councillors in Thurrock have said they will maintain the approximately

A London shopkeeper has been branded a “racist” merely for opening a shop celebrating all things British.

Actor, singer, and Breitbart News contributor Robert Davi dropped in on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily for what SiriusXM host Alex Marlow described as a “victory lap” after Donald Trump’s election win.

Meet Joe Everson. Joe likes to make every other national anthem singer look incredibly lazy. How does he do this? He does it by not just singing America’s anthem, but by also painting a portrait of one of America’s greatest moments.

In a break with the recent attacks on our national anthem, when a sound system broke down just as a high school volleyball game was set to begin, instead of ignoring the national anthem, the whole gym full of teenagers raised their voices to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Even as the NFL turns a blind eye to the lengthening list of players protesting America by refusing to stand for the national anthem, the league has decided to crack down on a player who announced his intention to wear cleats to memorialize the vicious terror attacks on September 11, 2001. Now a police union is vowing to pay the player’s NFL fine if he’ll wear them despite the league’s punishment.

No event in the British summer calendar is more shamelessly jingoistic than the Last Night of the Proms.

Even as the national media initially tried its best to ignore 49ers player Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the National Anthem during a Friday game last week, fans had other ideas on how to react.

Ross Douthat of the New York Times has admitted that Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton passed up the opportunity to reach out to “#NeverTrump” conservatives in her convention speech, offering them “nothing” to entice them to switch.