Don't invoke the NHS to sell a false idea of 'good nationalism'

Image: London Olympic games ceremony, 2012. Credit: Julian Behal/PA Images, all rights reserved.

Zoe Williams holds up the NHS as an example of ‘good nationalism’ in today’s Guardian, citing Danny Boyle’s 2012 Olympics NHS montage as an example:

“Good nationalism is a certain specific solidarity based on the things you have created together, as a nation, and the things you aspire to create: you could call it, for short, Danny Boyle nationalism, and it takes in the NHS.”