Isn't the UK just living in the past? Aren't our leaders just living in the past. The Great Game, The Second World War. The British Empire. James Bond. MI6. The Special Relationship. The Spanish Armada. Punching above one's weight.

When the UK Minister of Defence, Ben Wallace said shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine " the British Army "kicked the backside of Tsar Nicholas I in 1853 in Crimea” and claimed “we can always do it again”. he was living in the past. A remark totally ignored in the MSM. A profoundly stupid man in one of the mos
t important leadership positions in the country, supported by a team of equally stupid and regressive politicians, all reinforcing their stupidity with the support of the majority of the media, all living in the past. A knight of the realm no less now elevated to the Premiership, armour clad and charger mounted, banner streaming, forward men, for King and country.

Oh, dear, Ben Wallace, you started this, you forgot about the Charge of the Light Brigade. And Starmer forgets the Indian Mutiny, the Irish Revolt, the Maumau rebellion, the Suez Crisis, the Fall of Singapore, the American Revolution ........

No motive needed. Just the simplistic militarist reflexes of Col Blimp, the bravery of Biggles and the suavity of Bond, waving the Union Jack, reflexes barely making their way above the brain stem.