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Hero Worship Season: Poppies, Profit, and the Silence That Follows

We Brits love a bit of hero worship. Back in 2010, I wrote a piece asking when the hero bubble would burst — when we’d stop turning sacrifice into slogans.…

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November 5, 2025

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