Usefully, as it turns out, there is already a word for a national glut of festivals and pageants – pageantitis. First innocently observed in 1907, then again in the 1950s, another wave of festivities is currently being commissioned – to the satisfaction of its self-appointed star, Boris Johnson – for 2022.
Last week, with a hint of the impending auto-idolatry, the prime minister took early ownership of one of these celebrations, the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, which the Queen had just launched with a baton relay. They marked, he announced, “a year of pride and celebration for this country”.
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