“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.”
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
