NO GLORY CAMPAIGN

That this House supports the No Glory campaign which challenges the narrative of the official programme marking the centenary of the First World War; congratulates the artists and poets involved, including Jude Law, Alan Rickman and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy; believes that the war, rather than being portrayed as glorious, was actually a disaster for humanity, was totally unnecessary and destroyed a generation; is concerned that if the event turns into a kind of Diamond Jubilee celebration writ large it will risk alienating or boring many young people; and commends the project by the Peace Museum in Bradford called Choices which looks at the choices and hidden histories of the period, such as the black and ethnic minority experience and including confronting the English Defence League today.