No more heroes

You wouldn't necessarily have guessed this from the quality of commemorative programming on TV this week. But just recently, we've marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of an event that used to be considered quite important and interesting. It was called the second world war.

Now that it has been superseded by issues of such seismic significance as climate change, the childhood obesity 'epidemic' and Jordan's on-off marriage to Peter Andre, one can of course fully understand why TV...