I love the cries of Sacrilege! here. Personally I've always found the song pretty sacrilegious in itself (see this classic piece of 'catlore in which I was rounded upon for daring to express this heresy back in 2012: No-man's Land - Rap Version). Divested of its cultish anti-war 'message', No-man's Land at least has a chance of appealing to the majority of people for whom the reality of war has been an unfortunate necessity of human culture across the millennia, as the history books will attest. Militarism is an integral aspect of that reality, replete with its own tradition and folklore, thus most of us can wear our poppy with pride - with thanks to the likes of Willie McBride; military men who gave their lives in a good faith that remains sacred. He would, no doubt, be appalled to find his name disrespected by peacenik songwriters. The rest is, quite simply, unsayable.

My choice of Remembrance Sunday folksongs will be Peter Bellamy singing his setting of Kipling's My Boy Jack followed by Dick Gaughan's epic rendering of Hamish Henderson's The 51st (Highland) Division's Farewell to Sicily. Chances are I'll have Shirley & Dolly Collins' Plains of Waterloo in there too.