This year’s Bank Holiday list. Check out when you’re off.

• New Year’s Day: Thursday, January 1
• Good Friday: Friday, April 3
• Easter Monday: Monday, April 6
• Early May Bank Holiday: Monday, May 4
• Spring Bank Holiday: Monday, May 25
• Summer Bank Holiday: Monday, August 31
• Christmas Day: Friday, December 25
• Boxing Day: Saturday, December 26 (Changed day to Monday, December 28)

We live in England, and at times when everything seems to offend everyone. It’s impossible to talk without upsetting someone, and everyone’s looking to complain about something. The world seems to have become oversensitive.

Racist is a word that enters the fold all the time. Everyone is first to call the racism card, even when they get it out of context or get it wrong.

With racism has come people calling people far right-wing or left-wing. With the UK having an illegal immigration problem, citizens are divided, but the word is that if you disagree with the left your far right. It’s very childish and solves nothing.

The major problem with racism is because its causing division. The courts’ passing leniency on black people does not help. Iman’s touching young children gets off, but if it were a white person, they would be jailed.

Police have been accused of two-tier policing. The Henry Nowac case has shown how a white stabbing victim was treated as the guilty party when it was the black guy. They cuffed a man who said he was stabbed and could not breathe.

Then we can move on to flying the flag. Many people in all countries of the world are nationalistic and love to fly their nation’s flag. It may be a sporting event or similar, or they just like to fly their national flag out of passion.

But in England, we have problems flying our national flag. It all seemed to start when some goodie-goodie councils said flying the flag could offend some minorities.

This idea then moved to various councils banning the flying of the St George’s flag, even though it’s the flag of England. Now, doesn’t that all sound confusing? We cannot fly the England flag in England because it might offend someone with not British ethnicity.

There is also a dark side to this, and it’s the way some people have made the St. George’s flag an object of hatred. The flag is the flag of England, not a right-wing object.

Are all the England fans at the World Cup with flags right-wing NO? Yes, we can agree that the right wing uses the flag for their own uses, but it’s a minority. The neo-Nazis in Germany fly the German flag, but they are a minority, too, and the Germans don’t ban the flag.

All the time in the world, they say, but if you had to go around worrying what to say all the time, you would go mad.

It’s understanding that if something is totally offensive, but everyone’s tolerance is different. Some people like to make an exaggerated call for help.

Racism is uncalled for, but more definition is needed because things that are not racist are being mixed up with the term racist.

It’s Friday, 8th May, VE Day. On the 8th of May 1945 Hitlers Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies. After six years of fighting between 1939 and 1945, Europe had peace at last. The Germans invaded most of Europe and wreaked havoc.

While Europe was occupied by the Nazis, they killed and executed millions of people for their beliefs, etc.

During the Second World War in Europe, it is recorded that between 21 million and 25 million Allied military deaths occurred. The UK lost 383,600 military deaths during the conflict, with Russia losing the most between 8,800,000 and 10,700,000 million military personnel.

On June 6^th, 1944, D-Day brought the invasion of Normandy. British and US forces attacked to liberate Europe. With the Russians attacking from the east and British and US forces also attacking from Italy, the date 8^th May will be remembered because it ended the war.

The Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide instead of standing to be counted for the war crimes the German army and the SS committed. Some of the war crimes were crimes against humanity and waging aggressive war. The Nuremberg trials, which put the Nazi high command left alive on trial, put all the charges against the Nazis.

These days, we have only a handful of soldiers still alive. They did their duty for Britain and freed us from an evil tyranny. Hitler was so close to invading England that we may have lost the war and been talking German.

The problem is that not many young people know enough about WW2. The older generation had stories from their parents and grandparents. It’s 81 years since the end of the war, we should not forget.

The Falklands War in 1982 was 44 years ago. If you ask youngsters if they remember this war its unlikely, they do.

Let’s not forget WW2 and its significance in the life we have today. All those lives lost to give us freedom.