Here, via the bloggers at The Agitator , is a selection of the flags of the world, graded aesthetically. Betsy Ross wouldn’t be happy with these findings, and there are many other misjudgments (for instance, what’s so wrong with “colonial nonsense”) but it’s good to see Somalia (shame about the country) and the Faroe Islands (shame they are not a country) getting the credit they deserve. Other discoveries – Botswana and Slovakia.

Read it for the insults. Did Libya: “even try?” The machete on Angola’s flag is “nicely depicted, but not a wise idea,” Rwanda’s flag (“a big R on an overused tricolour”) is “spectacularly unoriginal”, while Mozambique’s effort (“automatic weapons on a flag are especially bad”) “appears to have been designed by a committee all of whom had stupid ideas for pictures of extra things to put on the flag”

Enjoy.