We never learn.
Posted on Dec 13 2007 | Tagged as: Iraq employees campaign
Before Gordon Brown bangs on anymore about Britishness, perhaps he should read Michael Bywater on Englishness.
This from way back in 2000:
When we wish to pride ourselves that we are still the world’s peacekeeper (”Shape up, you chaps; you won’t always have the White Man to lean on”), we march off to the Balkans, upper lips stiff as a woodsman’s tool. But when those self-same people whom we so eagerly went off to defend want to come here in the hope of surviving a little longer, the upper lips reform into a purse. Suddenly, the Balkans are light-years away, its people three-headed, with green blood and no morals.
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on 18 Dec 2007 at 11:16 am 1 Michael Bywater said …
Gosh, 2000. It was way back, wasn’t it? But tempora mutantur, plus c’est la meme chose.