It would appear to be fashionable to denigrate national icons because they did not conform to 2019 standards of behaviour which are increasingly resembling ludicrous levels of pcness. Douglas Bader was an extraordinary man who flew combat against one of the nastiest nationalist regimes in history. He went into battle with or without legs and demonstrated incredible levels of courage. The anecdotal fact that sometimes he wasn’t terribly nice or that he once infringed Gatwick’s airspace is of no interest whatsoever. I think that we can let off the man who flew against hordes of enemy aircraft and were indeed infringing our airspace with the intent of killing as many of our relatives and friends as possible. Time for a bit of perspective.