“Never again” means nothing if we recite the words while forgetting the lessons
VE Day was just the end of the beginning We’ll meet again – although probably only the once in that sense. The World War II generation are now very elderly and while some will survive to the eightieth anniversary in 2025, they’ll be few: the youngest in their late-nineties, most past a hundred. Thereafter, the direct link will be broken. In terms of the global political leadership, that link was long since severed. The last British PM to have experienced…