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Sir, Giles Coren fears “we’ve lost our Battle of Britain bravery” in his comment piece (Mar 22) on Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving RAF pilot to have flown in the Battle of Britain. Maybe he need not fret quite so much. A few pages earlier in the same edition is an article highlighting Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb’s praise of Nathan Newby, a patient who calmly talked the would-be bomber Mohammad Farooq from detonating a homemade bomb in St James’s Hospital, Leeds, in 2023 (“Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber”, Mar 22).
Coren points out that Hemingway insisted he was not exceptional and that he did what anyone would have done. Hemingway’s spirit is echoed
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