Make that three liars Keith, you forgot me.

Oh, don't forget, revisionists need a book burning party. Shall I dig out my old school text books? Or my sons' as airbrushing incompetent butchers and colonialists wasn't in fashion by their time either.

In fact, it's quite a recent phenomenon. Except amongst those who press their blazers and polish their medals. Did the execution party get special medals or just threats?

When you can answer truthfully to yourself exactly why one of the party had blanks in their rifle, you can begin to understand the truth of the "everybody knew and understood everything" stance that is being pushed by revisionists now.

I don't blame you for your stance. If shallow patriots didn't exist, it wouldn't be worth rewriting history. A bit like Hastings writing to say Alan Turing deserved his chemical castration. Must hurt a few to know a gay bloke did more to end the second war than every General that ever dressed for dinner. His view on those who were murdered by their own side is rather juicy too....

I stopped taking you seriously on this subject, of which I know little to be fair, when you reckoned I'd come up with "Butcher of the Somme" when it was one of your precious few historians who either coined or perpetuated the phrase.

How much of their work have you actually read? Even Hastings had it in for the top brass till his conversion to the establishment.