Just a thought people, the next time the Sparrows come over, especially if its a none airfield show, don't watch them, watch the people around you. Even the most non avaition person will stop and gawk. Ask some passing herbert in the street, he won't know a tornado from a milk float but he will probably know what the Sparrows are.
Yes, I do know the crews can be a bunch of posers but so what, Mozart was a complete pillock. The performance they put on is a work of art and should be preserved as such. I am deadly serious in saying that they are just as much a part of British culture as Big Ben, a Constable painting or a poem by Sassoon.
A civilised country is judged by its culture, is it humane, does it produce things that are worthy and inspiring. Something is not always the sum of its costs, sometimes it is greater than that. And the Arrows are part of that, they are the best in the world. Yes they are a luxury maybe even an indulgence but so is all art.
It shouldn't be about hospitals or Arrows, we need both.