2025 Moments: Flags - pride or prejudice?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Coming soon to a lamppost near you? That was the feeling over the summer, as flags started appearing on buildings, bridges and posts – but the undertone was unclear. For some, flags were about national pride, for others, it felt like a nationalist warning.
While patriotism and pride can be expressed in inclusive ways, the current political climate has made it a more polarised and contentious issue. So, how has the debate changed?
In our final festive episode looking back at the biggest moments of the year, Niall is joined by director of the British Future thinktank and author of ‘How To Be A Patriot’ Sunder Katwala and our data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Mike Bovill
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| 1:38.9 | And with Christmas fast approaching, we thought we'd take a look back at 2025, |
| 1:42.8 | but through the prism of some of the moments that defined the year. |
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