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Oh, good evening. It is hard to recall such a fraught few days ahead of the annual remembrance weekend.

The Prime Minister has described the planned pro-Palestinian protests in London on Armistice Day.

As provocative and disrespectful, his home secretary's gone further, branding them

hate marches. The Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mervis has criticised the demonstrators for standing

alongside extremist. It is a stain on our common humanity that so many seem to have lost

sight of the moral distance between Hamas and Israel, he wrote in the times.

Who would envy the head of the Metropolitan Police in this moment, caught in that tight test of his independence?

Mark Rowley has said, although there is a risk of potential disruption,

the planned march on Armistice Day goes ahead.

The demonstrators, of course, strongly refute the

description of their protest as a hate march and say their solidarity with the Palestinians and their

campaign for a ceasefire neither undermines the remembrance ceremonies nor the humanity of Israelis. Indeed,

there are Jewish groups among their number planning to take part.

And no lesser figure than Winston Churchill's own grandson has said, in the name of liberty, the march should go ahead.

Both sides accuse the other of weaponising remembrance.

So what is remembrance for and what are the moral obligations around it?

Is it to acknowledge and honour sacrifice, to lament a patriotic moment of unity, a recommitment

to peace, or an elevation of militarism? In remembering, can the sheer weight of history sometimes blind us to the challenges

of the present? How should we remember the dead and the living our moral maze tonight?

And our panellists this evening, Anne McElvoy, executive editor of Politico, Carmody Gray,

Assistant Professor of Catholic Theology at Durham University,

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