World tyrants on the march

In this country, public discourse is dominated by nonsense about pronouns; our education system is brainwashing youngsters into believing that Britain is somehow uniquely guilty of past sins, while ignoring the fact that we

saved the world from Nazism; cultural icons are attacked by the woke, who are now out of control and we are sacrificing our industrial strength by fixating on reducing the 1% of global greenhouse gases we produce to zero, in pursuit of an unproven theory.

At the same time the totalitarian states are on the march, in Russia’s case literally, while we allow our defences to shrink to the point where, as some American generals have said, we are becoming incapable of defending our nation from aggression. Do we never learn? At the Armistice in 1918 we had the largest navy, the largest air force and the most efficient army in the world.

Yet 20 years later, following what Churchill described as the ‘years the locusts ate’, we faced the terrible power of Nazi Germany with a tiny army, an ageing, although still the largest, navy, and an air force with tremendous potential, but outnumbered by the Luftwaffe. We won but, as Wellington said of Waterloo, it was “the nearestrun thing you ever saw in your life”.

Should we continue to neglect our defences, and, as a consequence, go down to defeat, all those who attach great importance to nonsensical issues will find that such things are irrelevant to the victors.

Colin Bullen

Augustine, KCC will only be chaste in terms of ULEZ at some time in the future.

In less than seven years, sales of all diesel and petrol cars will cease anyway, so what is the problem?

It couldn’t be that there is an election in the offing and various parts of the Tory party are looking for a hook to fire up their base in challenging times.

If it is, I hope you can explain your reasons to all those families who have lost loved ones, who died from a cause that was entirely preventable.

Richard Styles