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Some people are having trouble leaving comments on this blog. I’ll try to sort it out.
Meanwhile, Brian Busby from Canada has sent this comment on my Poppies 2025 post, which the WordPress algorithm foolishly wouldn’t allow:
Things are a bit different in Canada. They seem mandatory for politicians and talking heads, as if one isn’t allowed on air without ...
Walking around Huddersfield town centre yesterday morning, I spotted only six people wearing poppies. They were all very old.
On television, by contrast, poppies are mandatory. A women on a panel show not wearing one was assailed by the indignant of the internet. Poor David Lammy in Parliament (who has a lot to worry about at the moment) forgot to wear his the other...
[This is a version of the chapter I wrote for the Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (2021) (edited by Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter).]
We read some war books because of their excellence as novels, others for what they tell us about the war itself. Ernest Raymond’s Tell England, while not without literary and documen...