No more remembrance days – let’s consign the 20th century to history | Simon Jenkins

Almost all the conflicts in the world are caused by too much remembering: Britain should stop wallowing in past traumas and move on

Enough of Remembrance Day. This weekend’s memorial to “the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” has become a synthetic festival whose time has passed. The wars of the 20th century are beyond the experience of the overwhelming majority of Britons. The composite of the Last Post, “lest we forget” and Oh! What a Lovely War is impregnated with enmity, atonemen...