Allow me to share with some of The Times' contributors what Churchill once said:

"What if I had said, instead of 'we shall fight on the beaches', 'hostilities will be engaged with our adversary on the coastal perimeter'?" To be kept in mind - it would make my bedtime reading that much easier!

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