The Phoney Victory: The World War II Delusion

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My mother, too, who had served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service and endured the Blitz, experienced the peacetime of victory as a disappointment, into which the ghosts of a more inspiring past sometimes intruded quite a lot. New Dessert Masters host Melissa Leong 'considers new career role' after huge Channel Seven star quits show following 20 years on-air

The title ‘Phony Victory’ is at times is a ‘tongue in cheek’ expression by Hitchens, though he makes his points strongly, the reader does not have to agree to his arguments. His main point is that the war was badly fought by Great Britain to the effect that it cost us greatly in men, materials, ships aircraft and the closing down of the British Empire, which in some of our colonies was to become quite a bloody affair MPs call for new law to help the one in three men over 65 living with 'hidden misery' of incontinence by... Child dies in horror Surrey car crash between Tesla and Vauxhall Astra - as cops arrest 'uninsured and unlicenced' man, 20, for 'dangerous driving'Poland mattered hardly at all to the government. Britain had no major interests in Poland, which was not a particularly democratic or free country. Since a violent military putsch in May 1926, Poland had been an authoritarian state without true free elections. How much are the I'm A Celeb stars REALLY being paid? Industry expert hints at campmate's fees and puts his own price on what Farage could earn Christopher was not always right, but he was interesting and boldly opined. Brother Peter is more in my tribe (being a theist), but proves that theism does not prevent intellectual cussedness. Peter Hitchens always is worth reading whether arguing against thoughtless drug legalization or in defense of values now forgotten. The whole edifice of modern British patriotism and pride is based upon the belief that Britain stood alone against the Nazi menace after the fall of France. But it is a romantic myth. Not only did French and Belgian troops (often wholly selflessly) help British troops to escape through Dunkirk, but Britain also had a large and loyal Empire behind it throughout the war. And the part we played after 1940 is far less than we would have liked. Just nine months after it had begun, Britain had lost the war it declared. It had been driven from continental Europe, penniless and stripped of most of its military hardware. At one point he bemoans the supposed decline in moral standards of British society since the war, which he ascribes to some nonsense that is typical of a Conservative. But those who make these kinds of claims usually have little appreciation of what life was like for people who weren't white male heterosexuals during this moral Golden Age they like to "remember". There's a total absence of understanding of what may have actually caused it i.e. the rampant increase in inequality. People like the author tend to divert blame onto others, when the reality is that they've been at least partly responsible for causing it via their voting habits. Is it really so hard to imagine the psychological impact of being a low-status person in a highly unequal society and how this may affect their psychology and cause these kinds of social problems?

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Hitchens also asserts the common belief of Eurosceptics that joining the EU meant Britain’s “absorption into the European Union – the continuation of Germany by other means” without presenting any evidence in support of this bizarre contention (we should remember for instance that Margaret Thatcher, who seems to have become something of an unperson among Tory Europhobes, was largely responsible, among other contributions, for the creation of the single market). Even stranger is his apparent belief that the UK was bankrupted by the war, leading to a collapse in living standards, whereas in fact a mere decade and a half later, largely as a result of sloughing off the huge expense of maintaining a useless overseas empire, Britain was entering the boom years of the Sixties, with rapidly rising living standards. I'm A Celebrity's Jamie Lynn Spears speaks out on her relationship with sister Britney, as she admits: 'Family's fight. Listen, we just do it better than most' None of the justifications for this policy stands up. It did surprisingly little damage to German war production. It was incredibly wasteful of the brave young aircrews, who had no choice in the matter, who died in appalling numbers night after night.