Whose Flag Is It Anyway?

Can Keir Starmer re-energise Labour by connecting it to the symbols its old voters admire? And why are progressives so neurotic about patriotism? Plus, with Russia and China distributing Sputnik and Sinovac around the world, are COVID vaccines a surprisingly hard tool of soft power? And why is supposedly ‘Global’ Britain giving up on learning foreign languages? Ahir Shah, Yasmeen Serhan and Arthur Snell join Andrew Harrison for this week’s panel edition.

• “To a lot of us the Union Jack only means two things: the World Cup, or fear.” – Ahir Shah
• “Rich countries need to understand that they may have all the vaccines, but it doesn’t mean they’re more immune.” – Yasmeen Serhan
• “What the outside world doesn’t realise is, Putin’s popularity in the polls is dropping fast.” – Arthur Snell

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