Do students have a right to slate Remembrance Day?

CAMBRIDGE students’ rejection of Remembrance Day poppies (Mail) must have caused acute embarrassment to university veterans. It was a decision arrived at in a cosy debating chamber by youngsters with no experience of the horrors of war. I am a wartime veteran who witnessed the death of comrades. To me the poppy is a sacred symbol of togetherness, be it friend or foe. It is certainly non-political. The students have a right to express opinions and I wish them well in the future, but I have no need of their enlightenment. Jimmy Baynes, Surbiton, Surrey. I WOULD suggest all students see Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old, which would help them reconsider their position on Remembrance Day. How would the snowflake generation react to a call to arms, as teens did 100 years ago? ALAN CORBETT, DERBY. THE NO-PLATFORMING students have narrow and closed minds, making them unsuited for higher education. They should be at university to study and better themselves, not impose their version of history on the rest of us. They should expound such opinions in their dissertations. If passing exams and obtaining a degree doesn’t furnish them with a means to enrich themselves and an employer, they’re on the wrong course, in more senses than one. P. Wilson, Chester. I’D LIKE to make a speech at a leading university. After I have introduced myself as a Tory who voted in favour of Brexit, thinks Donald Trump is great and admires the British Empire as a wonderful institution from which the world has benefited, I imagine half of the student audience will have walked out and the rest will have fainted from panic attacks. I’d end up talking to myself. IAN MCPHERSON, Wirral, Merseyside.