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| You report (9 September) that campaigners fear the government's centenary programme will present the first world war as "something glorious". May I reassure them that this is very much not the case. The government's view is now – and always has been – that the centenary is cause for commemoration, not celebration. In addition to remembrance, it is an opportunity to explore the causes, conduct and consequences of the defining event in our modern history and I hope all of us will feel able to engage in it. Dr Andrew Murrison MP Prime Minister's special representative for the centenary of the first world war | You report (9 September) that campaigners fear the government's centenary programme will present the first world war as "something glorious". May I reassure them that this is very much not the case. The government's view is now – and always has been – that the centenary is cause for commemoration, not celebration. In addition to remembrance, it is an opportunity to explore the causes, conduct and consequences of the defining event in our modern history and I hope all of us will feel able to engage in it. Dr Andrew Murrison MP Prime Minister's special representative for the centenary of the first world war |
| • We should not forget the No Conscription Fellowship in 1914-18, of which my father and his friends, Bertrand Russell and Fenner Brockway, were members, and went to prison for their actions. Michael Barratt Brown London | • We should not forget the No Conscription Fellowship in 1914-18, of which my father and his friends, Bertrand Russell and Fenner Brockway, were members, and went to prison for their actions. Michael Barratt Brown London |
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