When Diana died I remember being stunned by the baroque public grief, which seemed not only un-British but totally unwarranted. The press not only lapped it up, they encouraged it. Birth of a new world, looking back..
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It was a bit much.
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which is why i wrote Iphigenia Crash Land Falls...
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😎❤️
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American “soft” power to England? This at the heights of British renaissance w Austin P, Spice Girls, Brett Anderson and Oasis. What a time to be alive
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What do you make of the conspiracy theories the press laundered every once in a while?
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Mohamed Al-Fayed was a climber & off his rocker
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He didn’t know how to hate. Or mourn.
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Same. The pressure cooker of 1980s and 90s celebrity culture exploding in one terrifying burst.
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Saw people queuing at Our Price, clutching several copies of Candle In The Wind as if they were bread rolls. The 90s were generally a rather strange time.
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To be fair, it did give the world the greatest of all newspaper retractions before, since, and likely ever to be, world with out end.
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my word
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Hitchens was pugnaciously on this beat almost immediately.
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The man had been missed these last 14 years.
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