"I don't want anyone to freak out but we have to get serious"

Will the war be over by Christmas?

We have now had 18 months of this thing, and have we had all the fun we can take, or what?

Let me see if I can find us something from the Always Someone Worse Off cupboard. Here we go: if this were World War 2, Hitler would still be four months away from invading Russia, and Pearl Harbour would be another half year on from there. 

Imagine being Churchill …