Improper Attire

Our great and conquering nation has always had its share of amateur militarists, but the majority are generally content to deploy their talents on social and mainstream media or, in particularly abject cases, at the Ministry for Wog-Bombing. It takes a special sort of warrior to forsake the armchair HQ, put on a fake uniform and some purchased bling, and attend a Remembrance Day ceremony in the guise of a Royal Navy admiral. Whether from mental health troubles or sheer idiocy (they are not, of course, mutually exclusive), someone did just that last November, and has now received a fine and a judicial telling-off for showing disrespect to those who served. Fortunately for the seriousness of the proceedings, the offence took place in Llandudno rather than at the London Cenotaph, where the posturing presence of the National Johnson, the Reverend Blair and the rest demonstrated, as always, a more profound disrespect than any prankster could hope to achieve.