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Some of the mounds of debris have Hezbollah flags planted on top of them, while large and small portraits of Hassan Nasrallah, the former Hezbollah leader killed by Israel during the war, line the roads.

When the movie was released in 2022, Maverick’s Japanese and Taiwanese flags were back.

The display, involving both the UK's Red Arrows and Italy's Frecce Tricolori, trailed the colours of both nations' flags as a symbol of closer military ties between the two countries.

Pictures online show the stadium - where runners start and finish their race - filled with spectators, many of them cheering and waving gold-coloured paper flags.

Still, it was rather telling that with a government shutdown deadline looming, Johnson was not able to rally his troops around the bill’s merit but rather their dislike of rainbow flags.