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1914

August 5, 2014 Longrider 11

Is it just me or was anyone else feeling a little queasy at the commemorations of the events of a hundred years ago? The television […]

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Questions to Which…

January 7, 2014 Longrider 15

A Betteridge in the Groan. But does satirising or criticising the great war really denigrate ordinary British soldiers, as the education secretary claims? The answer […]

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1914 and All That

January 5, 2014 Longrider 18

We’ve barely got into the Centenary year and the political spats have started. I can’t say that I look upon either party with any great […]

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Little White Crosses

December 27, 2013 Longrider 0

On Flanders fields, bright red with poppies; Are rows upon rows of little white crosses. The slopes of the undulating Somme; Bear the sorrow of […]