The argument dragged on for six months, generated more than 270 windy speeches, produced the longest continuous session of Parliament in Canadian history, and all but divided a nation. Last week the ...

RUGBY, England—Stuart Field raised his first flags in July: the English red cross of St. George and also a smattering of the British red, white and blue, hanging them from his hometown’s streetlights.

His daughter had just been sent home from her school’s annual cultural celebration day for wearing a sparkly dress designed around the Union Jack. Field was infuriated. A flyer from the school had ...