Yes, we owe so much to those people, especially the front-line servicemen but also all the people of Britain in the 1940s, who worked and fought for our freedom, many of them paying the ultimate price.

But thank goodness it was then and not now. Most of the qualities that enabled Britain to win the war have been destroyed. Patriotism, doing one's duty, even the notion of keeping things secret, all have been lost. Let us hope they will never be needed again because those vital qualities will surely be impossible to re-create in the modern Britain.