Then sunset at the causeway light and sound installation, We Are Warriors.

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Were he still alive, my late father would be 96, born in 1930: he was therefore of an age to remember the war (he was an evacuee). However, a great many people who *think* of themselves as having 'lived through war' are actually much younger than that.

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Unsure if my food delivery will get here in time to enable me to see the fireworks (eejit me forgot about bonfire when placing order) but if it does, I'm ready to go.

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Lastly, the enormous elephant in the room is that the generation that *did* actually fight the war, promptly elected a Labour government of the deepest shade of crimson, with a stonking majority. Shared sacrifice demanded a proper response, grounded in socialist principles. Take that, Farage.

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In summary, I know whose side my parents and my grandparents were on, and it wasn't Nigel Farage's, nor the Daily Mail's.

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