This opinion piece in the Daily Mail argues that overseas British cemeteries, specifically those in France, are places where the flag is more prominently displayed than it is many places in Britain.

This is the last great show of true Britain anywhere on Earth. And it is in France, in sunshine and all through the seaside villages behind the monuments on all those famous D-Day beaches.

Then another woman said she was trying to get her daughter to emigrate to Australia. She knew a lot of people who were doing it.

“England’s finished,” she had got around to thinking. “This is about the last place you can go to and pretend it isn’t.”

Which was being said in a street that looked like the old days of Britain, with bunting and flags and happy people showered with memories. But the street was in Normandy, France.

The complete article in the Daily Mail: Corner of France where it will be forever England