As I looked at the Markets’ reaction to the news on Tuesday that a ceasefire had been agreed between Iran and the USA, I thought about Kenneth Wolstenholme’s famous quote at the 1966 World Cup Final: “They Think It’d All Over…”.
However as the truth emerged, I was reminded of three months in 1978, when I drove from Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco in a beaten up Mercury Montego. As I travelled along I-10 listening to an 8-track and FM Radio, I first heard the late Chris Rea’s brilliant single, Fool (if you think it’s over). It’s haunting tune and catchy lyrics are so apposite today because we can all see that it will not take much for the Air Attacks in the Middle East to return: no compromise; no diplomacy; no cultural understanding, no trust.
For ordinary people, there is plenty that we can do to mitigate the effects of a resumption of war in the Gulf, or an attack by Russia in the Baltics. However, what is of greater concern is the continued lack of understanding by the Media of the need to galvanise Britain into preparing for the worst. It really is time to bring back National Service and a sense of duty to the country.
Rupert Wieloch 