Day: 4 August 2014

It is an odd paradox that Ed Milliband is a much better Leader of the Opposition than David Cameron is Prime Minister, yet the latter is popular in his role and the latter is not. Readers of this blog will know that it is my policy to look beneath and behind and not to join tribal movements […]

The most striking outcome of the extensive programme of commemorations and historical analysis, including personal histories of ordinary men called to the colours or who volunteered, has been the final realisation that little good came out of what became the Great War. The scale of the sacrifice in no way measures up the meagre gains of […]