Heath ignored lessons of history and we’ve been paying for it since

ARE the British learning, or is the charging of the British soldiers with war crimes in Iraq just a cosmetic exercise? In this country it seemed the British did not learn from their mistakes.

Some of the British media accused former Prime Minister Ted Heath, who died this week, of having engaged in the longest sulk in British history. He never forgave Margaret Thatcher for ousting him.

He seemed to be remembered more fondly as the man behind the Sunningdale Agreement, the first real attempt to settle the problems of Northern Ireland.