Professor charmley and i will advance a case based not on emotion, but on hard historical fact. What we will show very simply is that britoin's participation in the first world war was a terrible mistake. Our opponents will try to persuade you that all the suffering, al the sacrifice was somehow worth it. They will paint a picture of a rapacious germany stamping across the map of europe, led by a militaristic madman. And they will claim that we in britain were leading a moral crusade, fighting for freedom and democracy. We're going tohear a lot about the germans - but i urge you to see through the xenephobic cl