The "Last Night Of The Proms" has, for years, been an orgy of British patriotic singing and flag waving to mark the end of the season of musical "Promenades".
Last night the patriotic stuff was cancelled. An American conductor was invited to lead the BBC Symphony orchestra in a tribute to the USA in a spectacular evening at the Royal Albert Hall which was also relayed to many thousands in Hyde Park alongside.
See the video here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1545000/video/_1546547_proms06_warr_vi.ram
Englishman.
..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.