STW are coming from a clear anti-war perspective and very clear that they object to the increasing levels of jingoism attached to remembrance. Fair enough point as far as I'm concerned. We all have axes to grind and the world would be a duller place if we didn't grind them. To be appalled by the loss of life in capitalist wars doesn't make you a bad person; for the Legion to be associated with an anti-war song is no bad thing. No-one, surely, wants wars - and to glorify them is pretty psychopathic. So as far as I'm concerned it wouldn't have harmed them to do the song properly - might have even done them a favour. Personally I won't wear a poppy, because I don't like what it's come to symbolise: it seems it's less 'lest we forget' as 'we have forgotten - business as usual'.

Meanwhile, loved your Youtube clip Dick. How about putting up a new recording of the Rebel Soldier? - one of your finest moments in my book...