ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 11-7-2005

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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The London tube and bus bombs have seen horror replace the happiness brought just the day before by winning the Olympics. In their wake, this week's pictures celebrate the Union Jack, the UK's national flag. This familiar emblem, the current design of which dates back only to 1801, was for many years hijacked in support of right-wing racist groups such as the National Front. Recently, however, it has become a more accepted signifier for modern Britain, inclusive of the magnificent variety of people who live here, most especially in London. The pictures in this set include a pro-Palestinian demonstrator carrying a Union Jack on an anti-war march and a young raver in the sea at Brighton wearing a Union Jack t-shirt. This is a flag that can and should celebrate the liberty, enjoyment and tolerance that is not just the best of this country, but the very opposite of what those evil bombers want to reduce us to.

Flying the flag in the garden of a Shoreham houseboat in July 2005 (image 2619-66)

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