Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Stardust

I recommend the coterie of shadow cabinet members briefing reporters they may resign from Labour's shadow front bench if Labour party members and its defence commission review decide to push to change Labour's current  support for spending £167 billion on replacing the Trident nuclear WMDs system ("Shadow  cabinet could quit if Labour decides to scrap Trident," Independent, 11 January) read the splendid eponymous  title track to the anti -nuclear WMD warning film of Raymond Briggs' seminal  When the Wind Blows, telling of a post-atomic apocalypse planet:

So long child, I'm on my way
And after all is done, after all is done
Don't be down, it's all in the past
Though you may be afraid

So long child, it's awful dark
And I've never felt the sun
I dread to think of when
When the wind blows

When the wind blows
When the wind blows
When the wind blows

Life burns a savage wound, angry and wrought
Trusting a twisted word, you'll run, run away
You'll take him on home, you'll spin and taunt him
But they won't believe you, no matter what you'll say

So long child, it's awful dark
I never felt the sun
I dread to think of when
The wind blows

When the wind blows
When the wind blows
When the wind blows

A haunting warning, sung and co-written by the incomparable David Bowie, with Turkish multi-instrumentalist Erdal Kizilcay.