Wearing a Tommy's helmet and with a placard around his neck emblazoned with the words of first world war veteran Harry Patch, "War is nothing better than legalised mass murder," Chris Knight was in no doubt that public sentiment was on the side of those gathering near Parliament on Monday to express their opposition to the official commemorations of the conflict's centenary.
"I think that we do have the country with us, and the government are going to have problems, for example, when it comes to the war's Christmas truce, when they will try to conceal the fact that it was fact a mutiny by ordinary British and Germany troops," said Knight, a retired anthropology professor and political activist whose father was one of the second world war's Desert Rats, and whose grandfather served in the first world war.
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