Lest We Forget

Colin Cavendish-Jones gave me permission to quote this comment


On Remembrance Sunday, I find myself wishing that politicians from all parties would maintain twenty-four hours' silence. I have just seen, for some reason, Remembrance Day messages from Kier Starmer and Boris Johnson, both evil men, liars, cowards, and traitors who have not the slightest notion of honour or sacrifice. I would like to remember the fallen without hearing from despicable politicians. Perhaps we might turn to poets instead, A. E. Housman, for instance.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;
But young men think it is, and we were young.


This is a postcard I bought in 1976,

Jeremy Thorpe on the left in the index to Sandbrook, Dominic (2013). Seasons in the Sun: The Battle For Britain, 1974–79. London: Penguin Books.