Peter Tatchell has an interesting take on St George:"St George's Day should be a national holiday in England. We should celebrate St George as a symbol of freedom, dissent and multiculturalism. He doesn't belong to the far right. He represents multiculturalism and rebellion against tyranny. He rebelled against the Roman Emperor Diocletian and was executed for opposing the persecution of Christians by the Romans."
"St George wasn't white or English. He was a rebel from the Middle East. His father was Turkish and his mother probably Palestinian. St George's parentage embodies multiculturalism and his life expresses the values of English liberalism and dissent."
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