Melancholy Duty?

On 3 September 1939, on every radio station in Australia, the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, announced his, "melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of a persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war on her, and that, as a result, Australia is also at war." 85 years later, and so much for nuclear deterrence as the United States declares war on Russia. But is it the case that, as a result, the United Kingdom was also at war?

There was initially almost no parliamentary opposition to the war in Afghanistan, and there never did come to be very much. Yet while our rulers will never admit it, we who held the line outside Parliament were right all along. But it took 20 years for us to be proved right, and that was just against the Taliban. Against rather more, here we go again.