Given the Second World War has become something like Britain’s founding myth, to make this point feels like denigrating our national story.

The chances of miscalculation or accident are too large for humanity to live under.

‘The idea of Liverpool being a particularly radical city before the 80s isn't really there. It has its moments, but what major city didn’t?’

There is a very real chance that the King of Great Britain, steward of the British Empire, and keeper of the faith, was murdered.

Nazi Germany tried to take on the world and lost. Although if they had succeeded, they would not have held onto it for very long.

Momentary political expediency, self-aggrandisement and the peddling of political falsehoods may work for now, but they will eventually wreck themselves upon the immutable rocks of reality.

History teaches us that decades of stability, the grandeur of a nation, and the reputation of a once-proud politician can all be effortlessly undone by a single mistake.

Modern democracy has many problems; not least because of the tyranny of the majority. To think of practical reform however, we must go back to its origins.