Keep calm and don’t carry on
Russia is not about to invade, but with the US withdrawing support from Europe we need an urgent and entirely different conversation about defence.
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The wartime slogan Keep Calm and Carry On became such a commonplace sight in Britain more than a decade ago that it seemed as though it had become, tongue in cheek, glib and knowing, the national mission statement. The wartime public information poster carrying the slogan was everywhere for a while - on mugs and tea towels, on clothing, reprinted posters, or bowdlerised and adapted as a “meme” for birthday cards.