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For the David Squires fans among us: https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/nov/12/david-squires-on-football-and-the-poppy
Jon Snow doesn't to wear a poppy while on TV. Perhaps he just forgot - afterall he couldn't remember singing "f*** the Tories at Glastonbury."What are you bleddy on about?
I wasn’t generalising I was referencing a specific ITN newsreader who said she’d rather not wear a poppy on TV because she didn’t want to favour one charity over another. I thought at the time and still do, think that’s a pretty **** poor reason for not recognising the sacrifice of others.
More leftist angst resulting from ordinary working people merely wanting to respectfully mark the remembrance season at football matches.For the David Squires fans among us: https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/nov/12/david-squires-on-football-and-the-poppy
If I remember correctly he chose not to wear a poppy as he felt it proffered an opinion on the actions of the British military and thus wasn't consistent with the politically neutral stance of a newsreader/journalist. Ironic now of course as he has long betrayed his personal political bias.Jon Snow doesn't to wear a poppy while on TV. Perhaps he just forgot - afterall he couldn't remember singing "f*** the Tories at Glastonbury."
Key word: "respectfully".More leftist angst resulting from ordinary working people merely wanting to respectfully mark the remembrance season at football matches.
Off topic but on the same chapter.There was a excellent story on R4 yesterday at 1105 telling the story of the playing of the last post on the bugle(It will be available on BBC Sounds App)I see that the usual "Respect" was in evidence on Sunday for the Celtic match!
It unbelievable Ramone at the start those soldiers thought they were going on a "Jolly" to "Bash the Hun" and it would be all over by Christmas but how wrong they were, I can imagine it didn't take them long to realise that this was going to be a long war and a bloody one too, A whole generation were lost on all sides, Generals who thought that throwing men in to die will win it no matter the cost, Look at the Somme 60,000 casulties in one day alone! Just sheer maddness but still those in charge sent more men in to die, When they say "The Glorious Dead" there is nothing glorious in dying, Nothing at all. I respect those that died and every year by buying a poppy or just spending a cold Sunday morning at a memorial in November remembering either a relative that is still alive or passed and thank them for what they did is not a lot to ask is it?Just finished watching a 2hr documentary using newsreel footage from the time on the 1914-1918 war as told from one soldiers point of view on the French side the euphoria of signing on to good for his country to the sheer bloody mindedness and futility of it all.
A very moving bit of footage not unlike the recent We will remember them but left in the original black and white footage.
Its on the Sony action movie channel if you can access it.