The white poppy
We have received the following responses to yesterday’s article by Alex Wood on remembrance.
David Mackenzie
I just wanted to make a brief comment on Alex Wood’s article about wearing the poppy.
I thought it was an interesting and sensitive piece which would have been improved by the mention of the white poppy which so many are now wearing at this time of year. The advantage of the white poppy is that it is inclusive in its reference, and especially will include civilian deaths in war. It has been notable that recent public references to the losses in Afghanistan scarcely ever mention the frequent and terrible deaths there of civilians, including children. My own practice is to wear both a red and a white poppy.
13.11.09
Issue no 169
A week in Glasgow
north-east
Islay McLeod’s images of the constituency which produced more than 1,000 votes for the BNP on Friday morning
[click here]
The woman from Kabul
Afghanistan and remembrance I
Kenneth Roy
on a visitor who personified
the qualities of the Afghan
[click here]
The white poppy
Afghanistan and remembrance II
David Mackenzie
and Andrew Sarle
[click here]
The gentry’s cloth
Peter MacAulay
People wove tweed when
there was no other work
[click here]
A hunger for ideas
Walter Humes
on the intellectual
life of a city
[click here]
More than a bus operator
Richard Benjamin
leaps to the defence of
Ann Gloag. Sort of
[click here]
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