In New Zealand, the flag remains the same. And so does everything else | Toby Manhire

After a superficial debate that raised no real constitutional questions about the relationship with Britain, the status quo has emerged victorious New Zealanders' decision to stick with the status quo in a referendum on the national flag seems to have taken much of the world by surprise, with responses from the delighted to the baffled. But the polls had long pointed to such a result, and it isn't quite right to say, as countless headlines have, that the country had voted to keep the union jack ...