EPAA single, arresting, image fills the front page of The Sun on Sunday: the silhouette of a soldier standing, head bowed, in a field of blood-red poppies, stretching to the horizon.
In its coverage of the centenary of the end of the First World War, the Sunday Express says the courage required by British troops on the western front seems “almost beyond comprehension”.
It describes the experiences of Cyril Jose, who was just 16 when he fought in the Battle of the Somme. “Men went down like corn before a scythe,” he later recalled, describing how he crawled back to the British line, his uniform “purple with blood”.
The Daily Star Sunday urges readers to spend a few moments in silent contemplation of the horrors faced by our predecessors.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the chief of the defence staff, Gen Sir Nick Carter, says remembrance should cast a light on the past, but also act as a beacon for the future, helping us understand the price of freedom.
The family of a veteran of the Afghan conflict, who shot himself, tells the paper that servicemen and women are being failed.
PAThe Observer agrees with Jo Johnson’s assessment that the emerging Brexit deal is “a failure of British statecraft”, claiming the government has been “out-manoeuvred and out-negotiated” on every position it has staked.
The paper says several legal and financial services firms have been in talks with a tech company in Sweden – a country where several thousand people have had chips fitted.
The size of a grain of rice, and similar to those used for pets, the chips could also be used to access printers or buy food from staff canteens.
An entrepreneur who became the first person in the UK to be fitted with a microchip says they could have a huge impact on society; in future, he tells the paper, we are all likely to have one.
