tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post6969487314459535471..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Gove Great War Strawman FailTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-12074479678544481192014-01-05T21:19:46.377+00:002014-01-05T21:19:46.377+00:00Blackadder, so appallingly revisionist and subvers...Blackadder, so appallingly revisionist and subversive that in 2013 Rowan Akinson was awarded the CBE and Tony Robinson is a Sir...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-25654310908898359132014-01-05T10:53:44.073+00:002014-01-05T10:53:44.073+00:00"Oh, what a lovely war!" was partly insp..."Oh, what a lovely war!" was partly inspired by the book "The Donkeys" (1961) by Alan Clark. Clark was not left-wing: far from it. It isn't really a left v right issue: WW1 was horrific and there has been a great deal of debate about how the war could have been avoided and how the slaughter could have been avoided. <br /><br />Such a debate is inevitable on the 100th anniversary of the start of the war. It is typical of people like Gove that he sees this debate as belittling heroes, rather than an attempt to understand why so many of them died. <br /><br />GuanoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-13897119618979528402014-01-04T18:08:50.276+00:002014-01-04T18:08:50.276+00:00I left a comment on the DM site, pointing out what...I left a comment on the DM site, pointing out what an opportunistic little bastard he is. It got published but was taken down after a few hrs, along with a number of others similarly critical.<br /><br />The DM's efforts to shore up this Great White Hope for the British Right are getting ever more desperate.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-24157996566510707752014-01-04T10:35:12.890+00:002014-01-04T10:35:12.890+00:00perhaps Gove, and 95% of the rest of Britain, shou...perhaps Gove, and 95% of the rest of Britain, should watch this.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfxrTD-kPps<br /><br /><br />This whole 2014 CELEBRATION is a crude stunt by the Tories to show they can wave the flag hardest just before a general election. Germany is no more to blame than Britain, this was a local dispute that both countries should have stayed out of. And everyone forgets that Serbia (who started it) got everything they set out for and were still causing trouble over 80 years later. Dare we mention the name of the British PM who stood up to them in the end?SteveBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-52055335084375152642014-01-03T19:15:01.196+00:002014-01-03T19:15:01.196+00:00I followed the link and looked at Gove's artic...I followed the link and looked at Gove's article. What a complete and utter shitbag he is. He failed miserably as the best rated comments are the ones that deride him and any that have supported his view have been voted down.Brian Higgyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00884423787759824190noreply@blogger.com