There is, we know, a very big centenary under way. In Germany 100 years ago there was a momentous development, and the revolution that ensued is being marked with great fervour in village halls up and down the land.
People sit down around tables. There is discussion and there are moments of reflection, punctuated with loud altercation.
I refer, of course, to the invention of the board game Mensch Aergere Dich Nicht. It was devised a century ago and became popular among German troops in the trenches.
Families back home ordered games from the manufacturer, who would then despatch them straight to the frontline.
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