From Fort Changi, Singapore, now an internment camp for British Imperials, a wide-eyed Domei correspondent wrote last week: “At one place along the way we passed a band of Scottish Highlanders ...

Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.

3/3 Ian Hislop takes a look at the ups and downs of the stiff upper lip since World War I.