Wednesday 12 September 2012

The Part Played In The Disaster

no excuse for Liverpool's failure to acknowledge, even to this day, the part played in the disaster by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground that Saturday afternoon. The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the Sun newspaper a whipping-boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion, to hint at the wider causes of the incident.

Boris Johnson, The Spectator, 16th October 2004

Can this really have happened: a Prime Minister who identifies as the heir both of Thatcher and of Blair has hung The Sun, of which Murdoch is not only proprietor but also Editor-in-Chief, out to dry? Yes. Yes, it has. This is what France must have felt like on the eve of the Liberation.

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