The Welsh dragon isn’t a particularly fearsome beast as dragons go. I have one on my new keychain and a rather goofy-looking one has just made his lair on my fridge door, guarding the precious hoard within. It’s a national symbol and associated with Welsh nationalism, but that has largely been an inclusive, civic nationalism that seeks greater autonomy in governance and cultural recognition, not fire-breathing ethnonationalism. So, when Welsh flags started popping up all over the place during my visit to the UK earlier this month, flying from lampposts and all manner of buildings as we drove past, nobody thought anything of it at first. My mother wondered if the local football club, which is seeing a meteoric rise, had won a match. Later, we learnt that these had been put up as part of a c

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