In attacking Jeremy Corbyn’s two-year-old statement approximately commemorating the first world war,Matthew d’Ancona does not take full account of the context in which the comments were made.(The first world war is still with us. That’s why we remember, 2 November). Corbyn made the remarks specifically approximately David Cameron’s plans to spend large sums of public money to celebrate the anniversary of the outbreak of the hostilities in 1914. There may be some argument for celebrating the stop of that tragic clash, and but surely not the firing of the starting pistol that lead to the four-year slaughter that followed.
Tim Matthews
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Source: theguardian.com