We're currently in the grip of a media wallow aboy "D" Day. It's not as popular as the footie match, but it plays to a similar constituency. I hate the way that this national myth of the plucky little island keeps us handcuffed to the past and in a perpetually churlish frame of mind about "Europe".

As you point out, we went to war only because we'd so royally cocked up our relationship with Germany. And when I say "royally" I am explicitly glancing at the role played by the British establishment (including the royal family) in the appeasement of Hitler.

Put out less flags!