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DIANA – THE INQUEST
So it has begun. The Diana Inquest is under way and much news will be suspended in UK newspapers for the foreseeable future. On everyone’s lips will be a single question – Whodunit.
No one ‘dunit’. It was a tragic accident. But expect that to be lost in the soundbites and platitudes that will follow.
There will be agendas aplenty.
Mohamad al Fayed will be forever putting the boot into the British establishment. The ‘establishment’ itself will be involved in extreme damage limitation. The Media will be on a mission to absolve themselves of blame. And I’m sure that more than the odd member of the Jury will be making notes for the inevitable book deals that will follow.
And when it is all done – when all the spleen, and all the conspiracy theory, and all the iconography is over – what will be the outcome?
I remind you, good reader, of the Warren Commission that was hoped to put JFK to rest.
Yea, right!
© Anthony North, October 2007
LOOK, NO AUTOCUE
Well isn’t David Cameron a clever boy, then. At the conservative Party conference he did a whole speech off the cuff. Of course, he had to point it out; although he didn’t point out the hours he would have spent rehearsing it …
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GLOBAL NEGLECT
As the world looks for the missing monks of Burma it is perhaps time to reflect upon the next stage of world history. Burma is reaching a critical point of change, even if, at present, it has stalled. Eventually, China will have to react, and it will do so alone …
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