Letter - Ironic situation on our nationality

I don't quite know how or when it happened, but at some point in the last 30 years, common sense in this country got turned on its head.

Thus, we now have the most perverse situation where the vast majority of our children have no idea what the first verse of the National Anthem is or who Winston Churchill was, because the PC brigade would have it that such knowledge is too subversive for young minds and might promote a dangerous nationalism.

On the other hand, new government proposals would ensure that all future immigrants to the UK have a comprehensive knowledge of our history and culture before they're allowed in because they won't otherwise be able to integrate properly.

The irony is mind-boggling.

Bob Jenkins, Stirchley