On this particular day, I will commemorate St. George with a picture I took in Kyiv a few years ago, the symbolism of which is even more apt.
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That’s a lovely bit of art. Hope it’s still there 😞
As the dragon is the symbol of China, we should tear down this statue and replace it with one where the big red Dragon is eating Saint George! (Whilst standing on top of the world.) Don’t want to insult anyone, these days.
Q. Why is it that we’ll always be able to make jokes about New Zealanders?
A. They’ll never get the joke!
Likewise Julia, I hope it is still there
I bet St George was involved in the slave trade. I mean William Gladstone’s family was and Hackney Council is renaming a park because of it…
As well as ‘Diane Abbott Park’, other suggestions for new names for Gladstone Park include ‘Diversity Fields’ and ‘Multi-faith Park’. No decision has been made yet.
Oh, the willful fuckerry of it…
Has anyone suggested Parky McParkface?
[…] is, of course, St. George and the dragon, in Kyiv, from a photograph of Perry de Havilland in Samizdata. It’s appropriate since yesterday was St. George’s Day in England (whose patron Saint […]
That gets my vote 😀
It looks like Saint George is giving a green balloon to a dragon, perhaps as an Earth Day celebration!