The Necessary War, BBC Two, review - Telegraph
Link to the review of the programme. Hastings won the TV battle anyway according to this hack.
I find it hard to be dispassionate about it. I'm just off to see my new house, its only six miles away but I pass at least 3 Great War memorials, covered in hundreds of names of boys and men from the little mining villages and small towns. There was nothing in it for them, except their deaths.
I'll just have to agree to disagree with other pruners, as ever. Switzerland has the right idea.