“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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