There’s a story of that name by Damon Runyon about a guy with a penchant for practical jokes that appealed only to him, and there was some doll involved in it and it had a cruel end.I was still in shock over that Doll in Downing Street, the Prim and Proper Vicar’s Daughter, appointing Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary when the August edition of History Today landed on my doormat.
It had an article on the humorous side of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and quoted from various worthies. It seemed he was quite a scream, a kind of Hooray Henry and Debs’ Delight, insulting the waiters and leading bunfights at Horse Show balls.
But it then transpired that these stories could not be traced to anyone who knew him; the only evidence of levity in the man was of poor puns with his family and close associates. He just wouldn’t rate with Theresa May as a practical joker.
History Today has another dreary piece on Irish involvement in the Battle of the Somme and recent commemorations.
But the Irish and the British and the French should apologise for making war on Germans who had no intention of going to war with them and had neither the intention nor the means to invade either Ireland or Britain during the ten years from 1904 on when Britain, France and Russia were planning to attack Germany.
The Irish President and Archbishops should have visited French graveyards and seen the great numbers of headstones embossed with the ISLAMIC CRESCENT and the legend MORT POUR LA FRANCE.
They then should have visited the German gravestones, many of them embossed with THE STAR OF DAVID.
It seems to me Irish dignitaries and the media do not travel to learn and reflect but that the purpose of their junkets is to regurgitate a narrative that serves British propaganda interests,
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