Tag: D Day

Recently the elections started in the UK and every day the reporters are out talking to people and following the candidates. On the day, the comments or events are given a weight by the reporters – most notably here the D Day celebrations – and made small or big immediately. There is no percolation of…

There is an awful irony in remembrance of wars. We choose the wars we want to remember. Maybe it is a function of the changing culture in the west or maybe the emergence of media but we make a huge thing of the second world war, and the first world war, but we make nothing…

Today we celebrate a particular battle, like so many we celebrate, that has ensured the path of history in which we all live. We can talk to the human stupidity of following the dictates of one man and of the sacrifices demanded to stop him and them, but what we should remember is the awful…