For the flying of the flag stands for exactly the opposite of what I once most valued in England. The English flag stands for the militant ugliness of a very conspicuous proportion (I won't say what proportion) of the English population. Where Satan once said: "Evil, be thou my good," this portion of the English population says: "Ugliness, be thou my beauty." Nowhere in the world — at least in no part of it visited by me, and I have been to 80 countries — are there so many people as in England who have done their utmost to make themselves as hideous as possible to the eye of others. It is their only means of asserting themselves in the world: that, and their vile, crude behaviour. 

I exaggerate? Observe the English abroad, listen to what foreigners say of them. No, I hate the English flag.