Well, if you look at it like that – ‘so what?’ – you can say ‘So what?’ about anything. The Crucifixion, the Second World War, the Black Death, the Roman Empire. Happened a long time ago; nothing to do with us.

It’s lazy; it’s not bothering to make any effort to understand. All those millions of people who lived before we did, and we don’t care. They’re dead. The world belongs to those on it, not to those underneath it.

It’s like pulling up the gangplank against the human race. We’re the ones on board; damn the rest.

But make just a little effort; look at history. Look at that Ancient Egyptian who scrawled on the base of a pyramid, ‘I don’t know what the younger generation is coming to’. He may have written it in hieroglyphics but he is talking our language. We do more than understand; we sympathise.

Or again, glance at the Bayeux Tapestry. That is not simply a lot of funny embroideries stitched a thousand years ago. It is deliberate; it is deadly serious. It is shameless Norman propaganda. And we all know what propaganda is. So we should react accordingly.

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