Sean Moncrieff: Might it be time to consider changing our flag?
The tricolour was designed as a symbol of togetherness, but was it ever seen as one?
During the height of the Troubles, when one of the main professions in the North was doing Gerry Adams impersonations, the tricolour came to be regarded with suspicion, even fear. Photograph: iStock
There’s little as tiresome as someone who pompously explains the Latin or Greek root of a word in the service of some bogus point: usually, that people aren’t using the word in its original sense and therefore don’t know what they are talking about.
Naughty used to mean poor. Nice used to mean ignorant. Awful used to mean the same as awesome. Now awesome doesn’t mean awesome.