OVER four billion of the world's people are living under stars.
I don't mean the distant suns of outer space which flicker in the night sky, but the symbolic depiction on national flags.
Why is this pointed shape so ubiquitous, and what is its significance? Remainers plead to their friends in Europe: 'Hold our star for us'.
They are still wishing on the star that represented Britain's membership of the EU.
The celestial circle has grown with expansion of the federalist bloc, but had its first reverse when the UK finally left in 2020, four years after the vote for Brexit.
With our iconic union flag, and the crosses of constituent nations (as well as the Welsh dragon), we have never had stars as a national symbol.
At the Last Night of the Proms, the BBC gave prominence to the EU fanatics in the crowd - who politicise this annual patriotic celebration - by flying the flag of the Brussels-based superstate.
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