Memory Holes

Proposals are being considered for the re-use of graves, which at the moment takes place only in London and the Church of England; the latter presumably because the only mouldered corpse that Anglicans need revere is the corpse of the Church itself. Recommendations for improvement include an increase in the time limit before graves can be re-used; and the extension of protections on military graves, whose contents are Government property and cannot be interfered with. It will be a melancholy day for British patriotism when the rotted remains of our glorious dead become just as indistinguishable as the rah-rah megaphoned by those who first fed them into the meat-grinder.