According to a survey commissioned by the Tory Robert Jenrick just 36% of those under 40 were able to say that this was the contest between the Luftwaffe and the RAF when never was so much owed by so many to so few. My great uncle Peter Wood was a decorated Spitfire Pilot, as I detailed in my family history in WW2, and my son Joshua, 9 today, can tell you about what happened in the skies over Southern England in 1940.
But that is because he has learned about it at home, in books and in watching The World at War with his father and because we talk about it.
The Battle is not part of the National Curriculum and so is not taught unlike Black History Month, which seems to last all year, and other critical matters.
There is a whole section on Black History in the library at the local primary where two thirds of the non white kids are my children. There is sod all about how Britain and her empire stood alone to fight fascism. As a result the kids grow up thinking that fascists are Donald Trump, Nigel Farage or anybody else they do not agree with and who should thus be no platformed.
If you do not know about your country’s glorious past you have no idea who you are. But that, perhaps, is what the liberal elite seek to achieve and they are winning their fight.