Why I'll Ignore Today's Three Minute Silence It's a Political Stunt That Betrays Our War Dead and Demeans the Awesome Generosity of the British Public
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HOWEVER great is our sympathy for the victims of the tsunami disaster, nothing seems more likely to diminish it than the embarrassing, mawkish, tasteless, repugnant gesture of decreeing an official three-minute silence for them today.
This proposal, like so many bad ideas, started with the EU presidency in Brussels. It was instantly adopted by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell and is now the policy of the British Government.See the full content of this document
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Why I'll Ignore Today's Three Minute Silence It's a Political Stunt That Betrays Our War Dead and Demeans the Awesome Generosity of the British Public
Today at noon, flags will fly at half-mast. We are all supposed to stop whatever we are doing, to join an official expression of sympathy for the stricken of Asia.
Like Tony Blair's creation of a 'Holocaust' Day, the purpose of today's silence is to show that our politicians are men and women who feel, who shar...See the full content of this document
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