I mean, I have no doubt that they are sincere in their performance at the Festival of Remembrance. But if it is not this, then it is diamanté poppy accessories, and what have you.
The whole thing has become a gigantic piece of kitsch, with a widespread assumption that anyone wearing a poppy on television, where it is now far more common than it is anywhere else, is doing so on the orders of a petrified producer.
The whole thing has become a gigantic piece of kitsch, with a widespread assumption that anyone wearing a poppy on television, where it is now far more common than it is anywhere else, is doing so on the orders of a petrified producer.
Tomorrow morning, as for a good decade now, those of us at the War Memorial in Lanchester will overwhelmingly comprise public officials, local political hangers on, clergy, a church choir, the members of various uniformed youth organisations with no connection to the Armed Forces, and those uniformed youths' parents and grandparents. Those last two categories will account for the huge majority of the total.
We cannot be that untypical. In fact, I expect that we are entirely typical.
We cannot be that untypical. In fact, I expect that we are entirely typical.
Nothing lasts forever.
Pixie and Rod's performances were dreadful and the way they giggled through a hymn was utterly inappropriate and showed no dignity and no respect for the fallen.
ReplyDeleteThey either go right back to post-War basics next year, or they really do have to ask what the point of it still is.
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