Love this cartoon from the Daily Mirror on VE day 1945, says it all really and, although there is always a temptation to see the past through rose-tinted spectacles I do fear that we're (the beneficiaries of VE day) currently going in the wrong direction. This seems particularly true of the UK at the moment, our leadership is very poor, our economy is shallow, our feelings for isolationism are growing, old enemies are resurgent and celebrations of intolerance and ignorance run unchecked. I had hoped that this current pandemic would see some kind of unity movement gather momentum but I fear it's just a blip, the underlying malaise of self interest and irrationality makes itself known all to frequently both in the people that flaunt the isolation strategy and our media who seem intent on giving our incompetent leadership a free ride in favour of reporting irrelevant tittle-tattle.
Ho hum, all quite depressing really, never mind, onward and upwards, at least it's Friday and the Sun is shining, soon be time to crack open a beer, sit down with the fam and take in a decent WWII film or two, can't decide between "the great escape" and "the longest day", first-world problems..
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