For whom the bell tolls
It’s a statement we often see at the end of mini bios of P&I authors: “The views expressed here are his own.” But this time it struck me as poignant. Isn’t this exactly what Mr Guppy’s sad article was saying? The views are ‘his’, not shared by enough people in our vast country to be able to say these are “our” views. Certainly not shared by our LabLib parliamentary leaders, keeping in sweet with our US masters and being fêted by Israel.
The few do what we can but, so far, we are powerless when up against our own government, the bias, distortion and outright lies of our news media and the je ne sais quoi of of those who believe the media, and the insularity of those who choose to live in the bubble of their own lives… If someone doesn’t see a pregnant woman standing in a crowded tram, what hope of seeing a genocide on the other side of the globe? Turn the page, change the channel – “Not my problem.”
Our age needs a new John Donne to remind us no man, or woman, is an island.
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