I think there's more hope than that. I mentioned the founding of what is now the EU as a recoil from war. Fascism, with all its horrors of mass murder and disappearances, has been banished from Europe except for a few marginal parties who never quite seem to get a foothold but about whom we should never be complacent. We see things all too clearly these days on our screens and little can be hidden any more behind the adage that the first casualty of war is the truth. We're currently going through a phase of history in which it is becoming unacceptable to abuse children and women. The phase is acutely painful right now but a lot of good will come out of it. It's getting harder all the time to hide atrocities. Video cameras find it hard to lie.