I Think When The World Makes You

I Always Found The Extraordinary Loss Of Life In The First World War Very Moving. I Remember Learning About It As A Very Young Child, As An Eight- Or Nine-year-old, Asking My Teachers What Poppies Were For. Every Year The Teachers Would Suddenly Wear These Red Paper Flowers In Their Lapels, And I Would Say 'what Does That Mean?'

Somehow The Past Is A Safe Place To Explore Our Collective Cultural Neuroses.

South Sudan Is The Youngest Nation On The Planet.

It Was Quite A European War Until 1917, When The Americans Joined Up. They Don't Have The Same Sense Of The Loss Of Innocence And The Cataclysmic Loss Of Life. A Whole Generation Was Wiped Out.

Thor And Loki Are Defined By Each Other.