The 12 qualities of the greatest generation that we could learn so much from...

A stiff upper lip doesn't mean you're emotionally repressed, it means you can Keep Calm And Carry On in a crisis.

FELLOWSHIP:

The Blitz brought Britons together regardless of class, gender and age and fostered what one survivor called a

“spiritual wealth”.

In our throwaway culture we can learn from the Greatest, who were the first generation to go “Green” as they recycled clothes, food and scrap metal in the spirit of Make do and Mend.

The Nazis pioneered cancel culture and Britain ain and her allies fought a war to defeat it and defend free speech. This time the fight is against the illiberalism of wokes who want to control what we say and do.

LIBERALITY:

We were a selfless nation in the war but we've now become a selfie nation, always thinking of ourselves before others.

COURAGE: The SAS was founded in 1941 with the motto Who

Dares Wins and not Who Dithers Wins. We need to be less risk averse

as a nation.

A healthy body equals a healthy mind and that energy underpinned the war effort in Britain. We need to shape up and become once more a Can Do nation.

Also kn known as doing the right righ thing. The

Great Greatest had principles and stuc stuck to them which often f i isn't the case today, especially among our own “Great and Good”.

The Greatest did their duty because they were proud to be British. That didn't make them racist nationalists but men and women who were ready to fight for the country they loved against fascism.

We've become collectively slovenly as a race so let's all take a leaf out of Captain Tom Moore's book, and smarten ourselves up.

A sense of humour kept the British going in the war and they even had a good laugh at Hitler's one ball. Time we said balls to the comedy killjoys trying to puritanise Britain.

British servicemen and women tortured by the Japanese and the Nazis were able to forgive their enemies and reconcile, a lesson to a modern Britain that seems capable only of vengeance.