{"id":90793,"date":"2026-03-12T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90793"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:06:02","slug":"i-am-tired-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/12\/i-am-tired-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"I am tired of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\">War dominates the headlines again, but behind the geopolitics lies something much simpler: human exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">People are tired of conflict, tired of anger, tired of lives lost and hope destroyed. The cost of war is not just measured in military terms. It is measured in grief, fear, forced migration and the destruction of human well-being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In this short reflection, I ask a simple question: why do we keep accepting war as inevitable?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">And why is hope so often the first casualty?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">This video is about the duty of care we owe to every human being, regardless of nationality, religion, race or politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Because if hope disappears, everything else follows.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nXUsL6cI5Js?si=bK1KUR1R6KurDKT9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the audio version:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"I am tired of war\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=xifm7-1a6a9f0-pb&from=pb6admin&share=1&download=1&rtl=0&fonts=Arial&skin=f6f6f6&font-color=auto&logo_link=episode_page&btn-skin=c73a3a\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the transcript. I do, of course, know that you might have read this already, as I posted it here yesterday. I did, however, think it was worthwhile sharing this on YouTube today because of the very positive reaction it got on both Substack (where the number of comments exceeded the rate of reaction on this blog) and on Twitter, where, so far, 4,300 people have reposted the post and 10,000 have liked it, making it my most successful post there for some time. We thought that you would make it a suitable YouTube post as well.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">I am tired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of anger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of lives lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of hope destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of unnecessary grief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of the destruction of well-being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of forced migration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tired of children living in tents, denied the childhood they deserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of the political excuses offered for war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of racial hatred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of human lust for power wrapped up in theocracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of talk of defence that excuses aggression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of biased reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of being told that people who have died on one side of a dispute are lives lost and that on the other, they are just killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of a failure to recognise that any life lost unnecessarily is just that: it is a life lost unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of the belief that war will ever solve anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of the assumption that after war, everything will go back to normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of the cost of conflict always being borne by anyone but those who started it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of those who think we don\u2019t have a duty of care to everyone, whoever they are, wherever they come from, whatever they believe, whatever their skin colour, whatever their gender, whatever their age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m tired of those who think that others don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Most of all, I\u2019m tired of those who destroy hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I live in hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hope of a better day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hope of a better life for everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hope that I might live to see that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hope that everyone might then share hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Is that too much to hope for?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War dominates the headlines again, but behind the geopolitics lies something much simpler: human exhaustion. 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