Britain has just emerged from a pandemic which required an unprecedented degree of national solidarity. Our economic recovery is fragile, battered by the shocks of the war in Ukraine and the aftereffects of global lockdowns.
During Remembrance Week a mixture of emotions will fill the public’s mind. Some may take this moment to remember our late Queen, whose annual sombre leadership at the Cenotaph, over 70 years, embodied the sacrifice of our Nation’s fallen.
“Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes.” Is the impassioned plea of Aaron Sorkin’s Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn in The West Wing.
Waking up early, as I do, I often throw on a podcast. A recent, somewhat masochistic, listen is The Rest is Politics (which I would suggest a listen if you want an insight into the collective socialist hive mind).
“Security is not a dirty word Blackadder… Crevice is a dirty word but security isn’t!” Immortal words uttered by Stephen Fry’s General Melchett to Rowan Atkinson’s Captain Edmund Blackadder in the eponymous 1999 sitcom.
