There will be five Premier League fixtures on Armistice Day, and five on Remembrance Sunday. The idea that this is an established weekend of "solemn national contemplation" is balls. Will the pubs be shut? Will the betting shops? Will the lap-dancing clubs? At 11am on Saturday, will most people stop shopping for two minutes?
This is a march for an armistice, an armistice that three quarters of the population supports, and it will begin, hours after the two minutes' silence, nearly two miles from the Cenotaph, from which it will then proceed even further away. In any case, there will be no one at the Cenotaph on Saturday apart from "Tommy Robinson" and a handful of his fanboys, either wondering where everyone was, or thinking that they had frightened them off.
Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman will believe that anything is traditional if the Daily Telegraph says so, that anything is the view of Middle England if the Daily Mail says so, and that anything is the view of the white working class if The Sun says so.
I've seen your scheme, your paper could outsell all three of them put together.
ReplyDeleteIt is for a weekly magazine rather than a daily newspaper, but none of those three sells a million copies, and there is no reason why we could not manage that.
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