Finally, an open letter to the public in the Cathedral City of Salisbury highlighting the importance of the public benefit of the education of the public in the differing means of securing a state of peace and avoiding a state of war (an ‘irenical perspective’).
It doesn’t sound controversial and it should not be. Yet a judicially defined irenical perspective has been opposed by every English Attorney General since 2000. If the increased risks of another Great Power war are to be avoided, following the attempted political assassination in Salisbury in 2018 by a weapon of mass destruction, this educational principle must stand.
It did not after Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on 28 June 1914 nor when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919. A hundred years later the education of the public from an irenical perspective is a choice that the public can now make thanks to a Court of Appeal judgment on 28 June 2000…