- Reaction score
- 3,949
- Points
- 1,260
I wish I was making this up :
Counterpoint, from Baldrick:
Left-wing myths about the First World War peddled by Blackadder belittle Britain and clear Germany of blame, Michael Gove says today.
The Education Secretary criticises historians and TV programmes that denigrate patriotism and courage by depicting the war as a ‘misbegotten shambles’.
As Britain prepares to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the war, Mr Gove claims only undergraduate cynics would say the soldiers were foolish to fight.
In an article for the Daily Mail, Mr Gove says he has little time for the view of the Department for Culture and the Foreign Office that the commemorations should not lay fault at Germany’s door.
The Education Secretary says the conflict was a ‘just war’ to combat aggression by a German elite bent on domination ....
Counterpoint, from Baldrick:
.... Sir Tony Robinson played Baldrick in the long-running comedy series, which was accused by the education secretary of peddling myths and suggesting the first world war was "a series of catastrophic mistakes". Now he has hit back, accusing Gove of "slagging off teachers" and of being unhelpful and irresponsible .... Robinson, a long-term member of the Labour party and former member of the National Executive Committee, who was knighted last year under the coalition government, laid into Gove on Sky News's Murnaghan programme. "I think Mr Gove has just made a very silly mistake," he said. "It's not that Blackadder teaches children the first world war. Ultimately, if you think about it, what [Gove is] really doing is just slagging off teachers. I don't think that's professional or appropriate." ....