Blackadder Actor: "Michael Gove has made a very silly mistake"

Blackadder is the best sitcom ever. Just wanted to throw that in. Haven't seen it? Watch it.

Blackadder's final episode from its First World War season sums up the war in so many ways, as does the Horrible History Sketches of this period. These programs are used as a teaching tool which allows pupils who don't have access to the Imperal War Museum in London or go to France to see the battle sites; a glimpse of what it was like in a way which will not scare or terrify them but make them aware of the 1 WW !

Tony Robinson is labour through and through, so he's not impartial. He has in fact served on the National Executive Committee of the party.

Well said Tony, Gove once again is shamelessly playing politics in the centenary year of the great war.

While I completely concur with Tony with regard to Michael Gove's assessment of WW1 I have to disagree with him with regard to the criticism of the commanders in WW1. The fact is in any war there is attritional phase where one side has to wear down the military resources of the other. In WW2 that was effectively done by Russia against the Germans and the USA against the Japanese. Attritional phase of a war can be short or long depending on the opponents military capability. WW1 was really the first Industrial war so this phase was enormously expensive in men and material. If the allied commanders had not engaged on the western front Germany would have been able to build and stockpile her resources and eventually overwhelm the allies because Germany's industrial capacity at that time was the largest in the world

Gove is an idiot. Nuff said.

Only the politicians where more stupid then the generals because they didn't' make peace!

Baldrick would run this country better than the comedians we have at the moment.

Nice to have the support - thanks. Baldrick speaks common sense.

I remember doing the Nature of Comparitive Study; Theology in grade 12 and our Ancient History teacher nominated Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail as one of our viewing pieces lmao It was fantastic - we learnt zero about anything remotely related to actual theology or history that day but we were engaged as a class after going a bit stale through study and I'd like to think the powers that be deduced that we were old enough to realise the difference between fact and farce.

I've met Tony Robinson twice by accident, once at a speech in London and also when he was recording an episode at Penshurst Place in Kent.

Can't Michael Gove tell the difference between a historical episode and a comedy?
What a moron!
God help us if he becomes prime minister, which is becoming more and more likely given the ridiculous and demeaning antics the Tories are getting into.
He fits right in there with the rest of these clowns.

When some actors has a better grasp on history then paid politicians