These days patriotism, that is loyalty and support for one’s country, seems out of fashion, regarded sometimes as a quaint irrelevance, a potentially threatening ideology or a source of morally repugnant behaviour; and something to lampoon. Yet is this the whole story and if we neglect the beneficial effects are we letting ourselves in for something much worse? Are we likely to be better served by a patriotic politician or a self-serving party apparatchik?
Patriotism Part 17
