The best we can say about the poem 'Remember Remember' in this month's Cranfield Express is that the writer should relocate to Northern Ireland circa 1968. The Orange Order would love this kind of pompous celebration of protestant ascendancy and catholics being hung, drawn and quartered after vicious torture. Catholics were seen in the late 1500s as the terrorist threat and it is true that if Fawkes and Catesby had been successful it would have been Britain's 5/11. On the basis of that one attempted outrage an awful lot of intolerance has been built, however.
So we should be grateful in some respects to Ms Cook for reminding us of what Guy Fawkes night is all about - a complete historical irrelevance in age when we have other more serious issues to hand.
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