15th July 2005, 10:14 AM
All very sad when anyone dies like that but let's get this in context - more than 5000 people have been killed in Iraq by equivalent terrorism/insurgency over the last year. Twenty four children were killed this week in a suicide bomb in Baghdad - it merited no more than a passing mention among the acres of navel-contemplation and 'gor-blimey aren't we all such brave cockney sparrers' and 'aren't our bobbies wonderful' stuff which passes for journalism in this country.
Have we had a maudlin two minute, morally sentimental, two minute silence for any of them? No. (not that I can see any point in these things which have proliferated since Diana died).And don't get me started on piling up flowers at the scene of any murder or accident - where did that come from?)
We are in danger of becoming American in our blinkered and Brito-centric world view.
Rant over and can we get back to archaeology?
Have we had a maudlin two minute, morally sentimental, two minute silence for any of them? No. (not that I can see any point in these things which have proliferated since Diana died).And don't get me started on piling up flowers at the scene of any murder or accident - where did that come from?)
We are in danger of becoming American in our blinkered and Brito-centric world view.
Rant over and can we get back to archaeology?