Wavers

Is it disappointing to discover that Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is spineless, caving into demands from his master and mentor Boris Johnson that we should have more respect for the Union Flag around the UK ?

Mr Dowden has no pictures of the flag on his constituency website. His colleague in requiring more flags, Mr Robert Jenrick, breaks flag protocol on Zoom, which determines that, on a speaker platform, when there is only one Union Flag, it should be placed to the left of the speaker, as seen from the audience. 

Mr Jenrick's website  features the unauthorised Conservative Party logo, in which the blue tree is filled in with a Union Flag - but there are no other pictures. 

The new exhortation to the outsourcers running facilities at public buildings allows the exciting prospect of 'dual flagging', in which two flags on one pole creates the classy look of a petrol station forecourt. 

The gov.uk website, which includes latest flag guidance, is picture light, and there are no Union Flags in some 3,950,000 pages.