I'm a flag flier. St George's Day, VE Day, the coronation, anyone who knows me will tell you how I love flying flags - outside the house, from the car, on my desk at work. For all its faults, Britain is still the best country in the world, and it seems churlish not to take every opportunity to make sure everybody else knows it too.

So, broadly speaking, I'm in favour of the idea of flying the flags from lamp posts - providing it's done responsibly and tidily. Along a main road close to where I live, matching flags have been neatly mounted on the lamp posts, and it looks great, a poor man's version of The Mall.

The problem is, some of the other displays look terrible. Small,........

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