V sign
As an example of the V sign (palm inward) as an insult, on 1 November 1990, "The Sun", a British tabloid, ran an article on its front page with the headline "Up Yours, Delors" next to a large hand making a V sign protruding from a Union Jack cuff. "The Sun" urged its readers to stick two fingers up at then President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, who had advocated an EU central government. The article attracted a number of complaints about its alleged racism, but the now defunct Press Council rejected the complaints after the editor of "The Sun" stated that the paper reserved the right to use vulgar abuse in the interests of Britain.