Dorking dead. There are 366 names on this WW1 memorial in Dorking. When posh Generals talk about us making "sacrifices" to "take the fight to the enemy", this is what happens. Roughly one in four of Dorking's young men ended up dead. Don't let them do it again - it would be much worse. I took this photograph a few weeks ago and was shocked by how many names were on it. Dorking had a population of just over 13,000 in 1914. Based on UK demographics, about 12% would have been men aged 18–41 - 366 was about a quarter of them. In a war now, the "sacrifices" would be much higher and the UK itself would come under attack, possibly with nuclear weapons. The death toll would be unimaginably greater. War talk isn't glorious. It's insane. It's failure. And it's a deadly scam. If politicians want a conversation, it should be about how to prevent war, including through the kind of agreements on 'detente' and arms control we saw in Europe at the height of the Cold War - when our politicians actually talked to those deemed enemies.