The only thing we ever do.

  Worth fighting for? Tommy Atkins enjoys a tasty Beveridge.                                            In 1942, at the height of World War 2, the British coalition government produced a report on social welfare that contained the promise of a better society for everybody contributing to the war effort. The Beveridge Report recognised 5 Giant evils that needed to be dealt with; these evils were: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. The conclusions of this report were widely accepted across the political spectrum and its recommendations for producing the better world that people were supposedly fighting for would strike a chord amongst the general public that would resonate most strongly in the country's general election of 1945 .      Onl...

 Dresden 1945,  corpses from the Allied bombing are piled to be burned. Reaping the Whirlwind or  Slaughterhouse?      In September 1939, following the German invasion of Poland , Britain declared war on Germany. In the years that followed, incredible leaps of technology would see the Second World War go from Polish troops on horseback to one single bomb that could destroy an entire city . The ever Increasing industrialisation of war would be typified by the horrors of the  Nazi Concentration Camps , an idea initially  borrowed from the British and taken to new depths. War planners and people who could have been spending their time doing other things, poured their energies into figuring out even better ways to kill others.       At the heart of all this destruction was the struggle of ideas:  whose we should live by. After the fighting, the people of Britain would process the information of these ev...