great war

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Eleven

November 11, 2018 Longrider 3

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down […]

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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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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 […]