The earliest swastika kind of shape in the UK sits proudly on the edge of Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire. It was carved in the Bronze Age and is about 2000 years old:

It’s difficult for us now to look at the swastika without feeling some kind of negative feelings and that’s a shame because it’s a nice shape. And it is just a shape afterall. There’s even a website and organisation that campaign for its reintroduction to common use called Proswastika, here’s one of their attempts to rebrand it:

I’m not overly concerned whether we use the symbol a lot or not, but spending all that money renting a plane to drag it across the sky seems a bit of a waste. But hey ho, as long as they’re having fun. Their cause does seem to draw in the crazies as you can imagine. This is their 2013 Swastika Day held in Las Vegas:

People are an odd bunch…

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