MƒH Dilemma
Moments from History
This striking image in the April issue of the BBC’s excellent History Magazine [1] caught my eye this morning over coffee.
Capturing the mood of September 1940 at the height of the Blitz, this particular scene being in the London Capital.
Throughout these islands, the popular, was business as usual …
Never under-estimate the power of the lens.
Never under-estimate the power of the artist, and I speak here of true artists, professional artists, not so much the art that is easily produced by artificial intelligence. In 2026, we are increasingly sidestepped by images of such realism that we cannot think it to be a fake.
Alexander Larman’s article reports on the dilemma that British people faced generally through all levels of society, namely, that not everyone thought of Hitler as a bad thing.
Today, not everyone thinks of Putin as a bad thing.
As the saying ancient politically incorrect saying goes, Ahhh! There’s nowt queerer than folk!, oye sez.
The Caption reads, Home Front:
“George VI and Elizabeth, the queen consort, at a bomb site in London 1940. Unlike the ling, not everyone in aristocratic circles fully supported the British war effort.”
“As war raged across the globe, the king had to confront admirers of Adolf Hitler uncomfortably close to home, writes Alexander Larman.”
March 2026
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©️2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Written 17 March 2023
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
