RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON ‘THE LAST LONGEST DAY:’

Emmanuel Macron will not attend the 75th anniversary of D-Day, “saying that French presidents only lead international D-Day ceremonies on round-number anniversaries such as the 60th or 70th. … critics argue that he should make an exception this year as it is likely to be the last major D-Day anniversary while veterans are still alive.”

To Macron, who was born in 1977, D-Day must seem like ancient history. The French president is currently more interested in preserving his alliance with Berlin than in commemorating the reopening of the Second Front against Hitler a full three generations ago.

Meanwhile in England: “Donald Trump is like a 20th-century fascist, says Sadiq Khan,” a Grauniad headline screams, both living out George Orwell’s postwar observation that “The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’.”