On the eve of the First World War in 1914, the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey's met his friend John Alfred Spender, the Editor of 'The Westminster Gazette', at the Foreign Office.
As they looked out of the window into the sunset and as they saw the first oil lamps lit along the Mall, Grey said : "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time." He repeated the observation in his memoirs published in 1925 and it earned wide attention as an accurate perception of the coming War which changed Britain beyond recognition, not the least in the human and economic cost which put the country's development back by decades.
Brexit Britain is a country where old soldier, Brigadier Stephen Goodall, took to the streets in protest against the threat to the peace in Europe for which he once fought
Brexit Britain, bitter and divided, should heed the advice and experience of its oldest of old men, Bob Weighton and restore its once greatest virtue : the art of compromise
Saturday, 13 April 2019
Brexit Britain is no country for proud old men
Brexit Britain, ironically a country where 75 years ago, very young servicemen, now very old D-Day veterans, fought to liberate a Europe it subsequently joined and now wants to leave
Brexit 'Britain' is a country which is, in the mind of its old Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, facing an existential crisis
Friday, 13 December 2019
Sunday, 12 January 2020
Remainer Britain, must remember it is half the country, fight on with Will Hutton and Winston Churchill and light the coming darkness on January 31st with its candle power
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