The Daily Patriot

By Ben Chu

The Telegraph newspapers have launched a campaign with the slogan "Call yourself British", which aims to rally support for the Union. Nothing wrong with that. But the rather aggressive-sounding tag seems rather misjudged to me. It has echoes of the divisive Conservative slogan in the 2005 election: "Are you thinking what we're thinking?". God forbid the Telegraph titles should be thought to be performing the newspaper equivalent of the "dog whistle"…