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# Ho hum
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ho-hum/
- Published: 2007-12-11T00:12:55.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:38:44.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31

**Amthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** I confidently assumed (see below) that Cameron's [speech on the Union](http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj%5Fid=141137&speeches=1&ref=opendemocracy.net), his change of direction on the English question, his going head-to-head on the Prime Minister's chosen terrain of Britishness and his new tone - declaring that we need to "scrub out" the "the ugly stain of separatism seeping through the Union flag" - as well as the obvious importance of the issue, would give it some "headline" prominence. Woops, not a peep on the BBC news this evening. I forgot, it is the London Broadcasting Corporation.