Guardian is such a rag
Ditto.
As are "celebrities/entertainers" who consider taking cheer to our servicepersonnel to be threatening to their concepts of popularity.
It would, in fact, be beneficial to their popularity if they'd just open their understandings to those beyond Hollywood, L.A., and S.F., CA.
Movie stars and such can't go over and encourage the troops right now. They're too busy making sure Hollywood has one of its worst years at the box office in decades.