So we don't forget what we are sometimes capable of doing

All over England you will find memorials – to the fallen in two world wars and a dozen other minor ones, to dead poets, kings and queens, philanthropic industrialists, politicians, inventors, discoverers, soldiers, sailors, nurses and doctors, councilors, mayors and ombudsmen, and you will find memorials to man’s folly as well as to the heroic side of his nature.

Named after England’s finest hour – one of them – Peterloo was one of our blackest, workers set upon and butchered, as all but happened in disputes between policemen and striking miners during the Thatcher years.

Let us not forget what we are sometimes capable of doing, before we do it again!