Of bombs and bombast
While our leaders choose rhetoric over reason, the bloody events of
Turkey are certain to be repeated
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Mary Riddell
Sunday November 23, 2003
The Observer
At around the time that George W. Bush boarded Air Force One for the
first leg of his journey to Sedgefield and his £1m fish-and-chip lunch
at the Dun Cow pub, the Queen was also heading out of town, to meet
soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her Majesty's journey, in
stark, and possibly deliberate, contrast to that of her departed house
guest, began at Waterloo Station. Her single, first-class ticket to
Winchester would have cost her £35.10, or less if booked ahead.
The taxpayer does not normally get off so lightly. This week, Her
Majesty will travel to Parliament, in one of the three coaches kept
for such outings, to deliver her Queen's Speech. However wasteful and
anachronistic, ceremonial frills, like South West Trains, confer some
visibility on a head of state operating in an age of paranoia.
Mary Riddell
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