David Maddox: Iraq stamps

An interesting motion has been put down in Holyrood by Nationalist MSP Aileen Campbell. She is supporting a campaign for stamps to be issued with the faces of the military personel who have lost their lives in Iraq.
The motion is timed for the powerful Queen and Country exhibition by Steve McQueen, which has mocked up stamps with the faces of the dead soldiers faces on them and is currently on show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Mr McQueen is campaigning to persuade Royal Mail to actually issue his stamps.
It all goes to show that whilst other major issues such as bank collapses and the economic crisis have pushed the war well down the political agenda it still remains a niggling issue that resonates in Scottish and UK politics today.