This is getting better every day, and now we can see the plan that he was following.
Clearly Michael Gove intended a quick forensic strike against the BBC and the media in general n terms of their portrayal of WW1 before wrapping himself in a Union Flag and opening a second front in time for May 1915 and the forthcoming general election.
But if History teaches us anything it is wars never run to plan and poor Govey's Old Contemptibles are being pummelled by the Guns of January as masses of historians (who really do know their subject) turn their concentrated fire on him.
In the face of sustained broadsides from Margaret MacMillan, Richard Evans, Tristram Hunt (and even Baldrick) Gove's advance juddered to a halt well before its objectives and troops are now digging in for a sustained war on both sides.
It's going to be a long four years, but hopefully it will give me time to finish The War That Ended Peace (current reading), The Great War in Modern Memory (looking reproachfully at me from the shelf) and The Long Shadow of the Great War (the results of a Christmas Book Token). I've just finished Catastrophe by Max Hastings, but there's no time to rest as publishers will be gearing up for a big push as the anniversaries keep rolling on..
This was in The Observer at the weekend:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/12/michael-gove-blackadder-first-world-war-david-mitchell
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