The Tower of London poppies are fake, trite and inward-looking a Ukip-style memorial

Four million people will flock to see the 888,246 ceramic poppies deposited in the Towers moat to mark Remembrance Day. Its disturbing that, 100 years on, we can only mark this terrible war as a nationalistic tragedy

Otto Dixs hellish first world war visions in pictures

I accidentally got swept into a tide of humanity at the weekend, or to put it another way, couldnt move for crowds. What was going on? Why were so many people choking the streets of the City of London, where shops are closed on Saturdays, looking for a bite to eat?

It turned out to be overspill from a vast tumult at the Tower of London, where it is expected that four million people will visit by 11 November to see its moat full of red ceramic poppies.

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