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Nov. 23rd, 2004 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ramtopsI nearly always agree with Libby Purves' articles in the Times, and today's is no exception.
"IT IS easy to get distracted. A pair of bat-eared Charleses bludgeon one another in a cartoonish class war; irate huntsmen and soppy fox-huggers snarl across the hedgerows, while police roll their eyes to heaven. House prices slide, the Home Secretary’s private life startles, and a weird fashion emerges for buying turkeys stuffed with geese and costing £185 each. Meanwhile, various intimate surveys of the national navel-fluff reveal that we like money more than time and that our nine-year-olds are hooked on designer labels. Tasty topics beckon on every side. Even for the most devoted news junkie, it is easy not to mention the war ....read the rest here
We are told to “move on” and that Iraq will not be an election issue. Until the Red Cross is happier, I for one will find that move impossible."