Lions Led by Donkeys, Pageants made by Patriots
As we enter the centenary year of the First World War a fresh battle is taking place in the pages of the national press. Predictably wading in first, with about as much subtlety as a German whiz-bang, was Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education. According to Gove all this talk of the complex geo-political situation pre-1914, the accusation that the war was a shambles presided over by an out-of-touch elite, or the possibility that ...