George Best. Bless him. The alcoholic womaniser. What a lovable rogue. This man is consistently and boringly described in the press as “desperately unwell”. He is “critical”. He is “in intensive care”.
Do you remember Arafat? The press were talking about his “imminent death”. “What happens when he dies”. “After he dies”.
The whole death thing was presented, disgracefully, disrespectfully and boorishly as a fait accompli.
Hypocrisy. Like George Bush is “Bush” and Ariel Sharon is “Sharon”, but Saddam Hussein is “Saddam”.
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de 11.22.05 at 1:53 pm
Just heard a live interview, at the Cromwell hospital with his doctor. After 2 mins of this dross, it was clear nothing had changed.
Robert 11.24.05 at 8:03 am
The ‘Saddam’ thing has always struck me as incongruous. One editorial policy of the LIP magazine is to use first names for everyone. It jars at first, but is useful when you want to talk of George and Tony as a couple of (bungling) guys, rather than the concepts, legacies, and Places In History, of Bush and Blair.