According to a Sky News report, Britons are losing a grip on fact and fiction - with nearly one in four believing Winston Churchill and Florence Nightingale are myths while over half think Sherlock Holmes actually existed.
Appalling, but not surprising. It comes on the heels of a report last week from a teacher's association which condemned the idea that a 'patriotic' reading of British history had no place in the country's schools.
You might say, well, patriotism should not be taught. Fair enough. But this would fail to grasp the fact that for much of the teaching establishment, 'patriotic' translates as anything which is not utterly critical and deconstructionist.
Britain is a country being hollowed out from the inside.
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