WHO NEEDS NATO?

AT THE TEHRAN CONFERENCE IN 1943 Churchill presented Stalin with George VI’s gift of the Mech Stalingráda. Acid-etched, the inscription on it reads: TO THE STEEL-HEARTED CITIZENS OF STALINGRAD • THE GIFT OF KING GEORGE VI • IN TOKEN OF THE HOMAGE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE. In Evelyn Waugh’s Unconditional Surrender the sword of honour is introduced in Westminster Abbey, adored on a “counterfeit altar”, with the press mocked as much as the credulous people. The Times “dropping into poetry” (“Then bow’d down my head from the Light of it./Spirit to my spirit, the Might of it”), while the Express’s gossip columnist suggested it ought to tour the kingdom. We should be grateful then for what we are spared. The prime minister’s recent signature upon the “UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration”…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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