Today we remember all those who lost their lives in conflict. They died to defend our freedoms and to allow a better world. We need to remember their sacrifice. We need to strive to defend and enjoy the freedoms they fought to preserve.
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November 9, 2025
I will be attending the Remembrance Parade at my local War Memorial.
I will not watch The Cenotaph: I despise the generation of politicians who will line up to lay wreaths – they are responsible for betraying this country and destroying everything the WW1 and WW2 generations fought to preserve.
And I have no time for Charles Windsor, who fronted the WEF calling for “The Great Reset” and the British people to be forced to have lower living standards …. with “the Elite” given a free pass, of course.
November 9, 2025
@Donna – not to express a downer on the day and the respect we have for them all. But those at the centre wishing to single out those that while they did play and important part of the efforts against Germany as being presented as something more special when it was the ‘whole country’ pulling in unison – that is ‘groups’ wishing to divide society.
November 9, 2025
Yes Donna I agree what the people of this country have given is incredible for our freedom
And then you look at our politicians lined up and you just feel sick, how they sold this country out
for their own ends. Emotionally I feel they should not be allowed to attend or at least hang their heads
in shame.
November 9, 2025
As the old soldier said
It wasn’t worth the sacrifice for what has happened to the country. I’m a submariner veteran from the cold war era. We did some amazing and dangerous things but if I was young today, I wouldn’t make the sacrifice for this bunch of traitors in Westminster.
November 9, 2025
Many feel the same. Let us hope we can actually get David Starkey’s new reformation before it is too late.
I see that Prince William is following his foolish & political father in flying off to the Cop festival of hypocrisy and mad CO2 devil gas religion. He should keep out of all politics like his mother. Especially here where A. it is profoundly wrongheaded and B. it highlights the royal’s gross do as I say not as I do hypocrisy. It damages the institution of the monarchy even more than Andrew and Harry have done! Why is he not taking some wise advice! Arrogance perhaps?
November 9, 2025
This especially as Reform would scrap net zero, Trump and his experts righly thinks it is a vastly exaggerated hoax and even the Tories are alas very, very slowly moving towards climate realism after the insanities of climate alarmists dope Cameron, May, Boris and Sunak. How will King Charles and P. William cope with climate realists in power after all their mad climate statements! Just keep out of politics as the late queen did!
November 9, 2025
+1 Agree. See DT article today by
Maurice Saatchi
“The People v UK Government: British citizens are now slaves of the state
Successive governments have knowingly conspired to subject all of us to years of economic emasculation”. and our Freedom.
November 9, 2025
@Ian Wragg – and why would you? 2TK has shown that to keep his buddies in the legal profession well endowed with money he would erect laws to punish any one doing their duty for us all, while giving those close to him a free pass.
November 9, 2025
I am immensely proud of the lads and lasses at the parade at the Cenotaph today and thinking of the men on active duty, particularly the submariners at sea on extended patrols
These have become necessary due to disgusting politicians hounding our heroic veterans whilst sucking up to the treacherous IRA causing a recruitment crisis.
How Starmer and his cohort can have the bare face to attend this event appalles me. We have never had such an anti British government in our lon history.
November 9, 2025
Ian did you know Bryan Smalley?
November 9, 2025
Not sure. I served on Thermopylae, Warspite and Conqueror 66 to 71
November 9, 2025
Yes will view the National Service on TV out of respect and thanks for those who paid the ultimate price for the decisions made by others, and to remember all those who served.
I still have photographs of my Grandfather and Father in uniform, both fortunately came home, but they knew many who did not.
Yes they fought for freedom, but perhaps freedom then was a very different type of freedom than that which we have now.
I often wonder how many of our current population would volunteer now ?
November 9, 2025
Our current population have nothing to defend. We lost the Peace.
November 9, 2025
Indeed “to enjoy the freedoms they fought to preserve” when such as still remain and before Two Tier, the socialists, Offcom, the online “safety” censoring act, the proposed back door blasphemy laws… extinguish even more of them.
November 9, 2025
They even want to prevent you pointing out the net harms done by the Covid Vaccines and the insanity of the Net Zero agenda – see the excellent book:- Paul R Goddard
The Death of Science: The retreat from reason in the post-modern world.
November 9, 2025
Our history is blessed with heroes, men and women forged in the hearth of conflicts. Let us hope we, the generations that follow and have these examples to remember, are fit and able to carry that light of freedom they maintained in those darkest of past days.
My father was part of the RAF that fought in north Africa and up the Italian peninsula, he internalised his memories of those battles and paid the mental torture the custom of silent suffering brings.
The MIke and the Mechanics song, The Living Years, perfectly summarising my personal failure to understand the scale of commitment made by our fathers generation. The men and women we took for granted argued with and sadly now fail by our own inadequate efforts, deserve a better legacy than many of us provide.
November 9, 2025
My Grandfather (Royal Artillery Lead Driver – WW1) and Father (Lancaster Flight Engineer – WW2) would be deeply upset by much in “progressive” Britain. They survived conflict, one having fought in all the major battles of WW1 and going from a fine set of horses, to a team of mules. The other flying two full tours in Bomber Command when new recruits lasted a bare three weeks.
So today I shall remember them, two men who actually came back. Neither would talk about their wars, in fact the mere mention of the Somme would reduce my Grandad to tears. When so many now try to tell us what dreadful people we British folk are, I think about my Dad and Grandad and know that they are wrong!
November 9, 2025
IanT marvellous heroes indeed and today’s trashing of our history is ignoring that they all fought against this for the last 200years.
November 9, 2025
I have similar sadness on this special day. One grandfather was killed near the Somme 21st Sept 1918, yes survived after joining the war in 1914 to die just 50 days from the end. Leaving his 2 daughters too young to remember him, and after a brief hospital in Kent visit to see him before he returned to France, they were 7 and 6 years old by then. My mother only had very vague memory of the visit but had the sadness and suffering visited on her mother which lasted the rest of her now widowed mother’s long life.
My other grandfather was too old to serve but then died of ‘Spanish flu’ in early 1921 as I heard.
So, I find a grief of events that robbed me of knowing grandfathers dying over 100 years ago.
November 9, 2025
Whilst I honour those who died to maintain our freedom, I find myself conflicted because of the political wars the armed forces have been committed to in recent times.
It must be that the people in this country should feel loyal to their country, because who knows but another enemy may come along to threaten our freedom and it will be time to rally to the flag again.
I’m thinking we already have an enemy invited in who want to destroy our liberty and replace it with their religious tyranny,
November 9, 2025
DA
Germany now finding that out to their cost, for allowing far too much immigration of the wrong people.
Other Eu Countries now suggesting the same worry.
Meanwhile we still act as a taxi service for more and more anticipated future problems.
Interesting to view the Trump – Oban meeting, and the press interviews afterwards
November 9, 2025
Perhaps Lucy Connolly could be interviewed to speak about “the freedoms” the Westminster Uni-Party has preserved.
November 9, 2025
Our shared experience, our shared sacrifice for our shared values is sharp today.
God bless and keep all those who fought for our nation and for the good of the world against the pure evil which is a constant challenge.
God bless their living successors who strive still in the face of pure evil in our own land.
November 9, 2025
“lest we forget” thank you you tried hard to win our freedoms
November 9, 2025
The Labour govt is not doing enough to preserve the freedoms our brave service people achieved at great personal sacrifice. We remember them and should act as they did to maintain the qualities of our own lives and those of our descendants.
November 9, 2025
I have an Uncle, killed in WWI, still lying in his grave in an immaculate war cemetery. Killed before his sister, my mother was born. Equally I have three further uncles who served in WWII, fortunately they survived but returned home never to talk of their experiences. Remembrance Day is most poignant, a day when all should be grateful for their sacrifices.
November 9, 2025
It seems to have taken us from 1945 until now to realize what soldiers returning from the Great War in 1918-20 already realized – that their sacrifice and that of their dead comrades had been thrown away by inept politicians and money-grubbing citizens.
God help us if we ever have to have the call-up now.
November 9, 2025
which great war was that? 1918-20?
Did it start just as the WW1 finished?
November 9, 2025
I’ve not gone not to my local Remembrance service because it is being led by a priest who considers Operation Raise the Colours is rascist and neo-nazi. I don’t think many of those who fought in past wars would agree with him. The sermon would probably be yet another woke rant, I’m sick of them.
Next week there’s a Remembrance service in a tiny norman church a few miles further away than my church. Different priest. I’ll go there instead.
November 9, 2025
We went to our local Remembrance parade and service at the local War Memorial. It was really good. It was lovely to see how so many local schools and scouts etc were involved and also laid wreaths. There was even a home made wreath put together by the local nursery!
The only down point for me was when the Muslim chap put up the volume on the microphone as he said his two, part English/part Arabic ‘prayers.’ It seemed to take dominance over the Christian Rector and the Jewish leader.
Afterwards we went to a D Day sing song at the community centre! A very memorable morning!
November 9, 2025
Good words SirJ
November 9, 2025
The Remembrance Service at our local church was very moving and meaningful. The names of those who died in WW1 and WW2 were read out slowly, calmly and respectfully during the service.
For myself, while I was in the army, I spent six months on active service in Borneo during 1964. We lost three members of the regiment and I remember them each year.
November 9, 2025
Off Topic. – but a big deal!
Tim Davie has resigned as director-general of the BBC after a Telegraph investigation into bias at the broadcaster.
Mr Davie had been under pressure to quit after a 19-page memo revealed that a speech by Donald Trump which made him appear to encourage the Capitol Riot was doctored. It also revealed anti-Israel bias at the broadcaster as well as claims gender-critical issues had been downplayed.
Deborah Turness, the broadcaster’s CEO of News, has also resigned.
Mr Davie said it was “entirely” his decision” to leave the BBC after 20 years and he would work with the BBC’s board to “allow for an orderly transition to a successor”.
November 10, 2025
Yes but tell it to Starmer’s Gang.
November 10, 2025
Half the population aren’t interested or know about remeberance
November 12, 2025
According to the 2021 census, the population of London was only 36.8% white British. On current trends, white British people are projected to become a minority in England by 2063. I sincerely doubt any British veteran of world war two fought for those things to happen.