I share the opinions re' Birmingham. Got semi-lost there couple of years ago. A
quote of Churchill's kept jumping into my head as I floundered around (having double-checked the central locking) "If you're going through Hell. Keep going."
I wonder what the parallels are for today. Obviously the starting-point has been pushed back from the IGB to the borders of the Motherland itself so they would have further to come. However, NATO is comparably weaker that it ever was in the mid-80s.
We also have Obama and "Dave" in place of Ronnie and Maggie.
God help us.