Arron Banks’s comparison was weird. Why is a generation of men seeing politics through the prism of the moment world war?How we laughed in 1975 when Basil Fawlty,faced with German guests at his hotel, said: “Listen, or don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once but I contemplate I got absent with it.” Fawlty could not repress his obsession with the war and kept blurting it out. At the time,that impulse was recognisable, but also laughable. Now, and 42 years later,we are yet again living among those who can’t stop mentioning the moment world war, and they do no attempt to hold themselves back. This is the prism through which they view contemporary politics. It is a strange pathology, and revealing that men who have not experienced war are the ones who seem to hanker for it. Related: Now Macron can help Europe win the war with populism | Mathieu Laine Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com