[Wynonie Harris]

The unfortunate thing is that this is now turning out to be a bandwagon which any third-rate nonentity who wants a little easy publicity can jump onto. Cue Jon Snow, channel 4 newsreader, who will not wear a poppy on screen because he thinks it's making a statement and, furthermore, he will not bow to "poppy fascism". I would have thought that not wearing a poppy made more of a statement and perhaps this buffoon should reflect that he would now be bowing to real fascism if it were not for the brave men and women whose memory he is currently cheapening. Still, I suppose that when your only talent is reading from an autocue, you've got to make your mark somehow.