[John Whitworth]

Does anyone else have a poppy day? Isn't it time we stopped this? Every year I feel less and less inclined to wear one. What do the rest of you think?

[Mary McLean]

I've always felt some ambivalence towards wearing a poppy, since most of my history lessons in school were exulting over shooting the lobsterbacks....

And yes, the World Wars were a long time ago now, but Britain hasn't stopped sending people off to die, so it seems fair enough to acknowledge them once a year. Remembrance Sunday is a fine and moving occasion. The weeks of enforced public mourning leading up to it are perhaps excessive. The closest American equivalent to the media hounding of public officials for not wearing a poppy is the hoohah over the wearing of an American flag lapel pin.

[Andrew Frisardi]

Coming back to edit out an inside joke.

I associate poppies with June, not October. The English climate is so contrary.

[John Whitworth]

Nothing to do with the climate, Andrew. They celebrate Armistice Day.

[ross hamilton hill]

It means a lot to those families who still grieve.

[John Whitworth]

But if it's Armistice Day 1918 there can't be many still grieving, Ross. Or indeed any.