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http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/07/desideratum/ Trying to make a point Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/07/desideratum/#comment-24189 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:28:39 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/07/27/desideratum/#comment-24189 Do you mean Major’s ministers? And weren’t many of them backbenchers? Anyway, Iraq – our most disgraceful war since – what? – the Boer War, perhaps. Disgraceful in the sense of the recklessness and the lying and the stupidity.

]]> http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/07/desideratum/#comment-23988 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:19:30 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/07/27/desideratum/#comment-23988 I wonder if historians without our (my) sense of crushing disappointment in what could have been and wasn’t under new labour will just find blair’s britain a bit bland.
Does Iraq compare to the Falklands or Suez? do the sex scandals compare to profumo or Thatchers ministers. Is the ministerial incompetance worse than the winter of discontent?
It is the sheer relentless weight of clinging on to power for the sake of power that is so depressing (to me)

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