Brian Quail

THIS lockdown year we have commemorated (virtually) historic anniversaries of VE Day and Dunkirk – as well we should – but a globally even more significant event will, I fear, pass without due attention. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the greatest single-act war crime in history – the use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. Being the last significant anniversary at which there will be living survivors to testify to the actualities of this atrocity, this disregard is particularly tragic.

IT is fascinating to observe how people become so corrupted by moral nihilism, that they do not even recognise principle when they meet it face to face. Thus recently Michael Fallon from the deck of a Vanguard nuclear submarine excoriated the SNP for rejecting Trident, because they hold the moral conviction that mass murder by WMD is an abomination. To him, this is simply incomprehensible.

BANGED up again! It’s been many years since I last supped porridge as a guest of Betty Windsor.