Advertisement Powerful, evocative, timeless. At the heart of a great newspaper are its photographs, as important as the words surrounding them in defining the events of the age. Sometimes they are even more important, as the iconic image of St Paul’s Cathedral, impervious to one of the deadliest nights of the Blitz, proves. All this week, we have been marking the 125th anniversary of the Mail with stunning pullouts of the great moments in our history. Today we celebrate the contribution of picture power, from the pity of war to human tragedy and sporting and cultural achievement. And if one photograph symbolised the indomitable spirit of human resilience, it was that picture of St Paul’s on the night of December 29, 1940, rising above the Luftwaffe’s hellish firestorm.