We live in an age of inclusiveness; of gushing acceptance speeches, examinations that no one is allowed to fail. As the United Kingdom slides inexorably towards the mire of Parliamentary mandated mediocrity, your correspondent is minded to recall the story of the belted Earl who won the Victoria Cross at the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk.

After his return home, he was invited by a society hostess to a dinner party. Over port, he was invited to tell the guests of this most exciting of adventures, but even when strongly pressed he refused to drawn. After a short while, his hostess suggested sympathetically that that the whole experience might in deed be too horrific to be retold at the table, or even recalled at all.
Indeed, came the reply, you have simply no idea! The noise, my dear, & the people!