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I didn't watch the Cenotaph service on Sunday morning, but I found watching the ceremony preceding the rugby international between England and New Zealand later in the day, a tremendously moving affair. With the New Zealander's forebears having paid a heavy price fighting for Britain and seeing them standing shoulder to shoulder with the English team, and remembering my own grandfather, badly wounded at the Somme and my father in North Africa, I confess, I had to reach for a hankie.
Simon Jenkins says, forget it, - no thanks.