Friday, July 07, 2006

7/7 remembered

I had my two minutes' silence on a hot Barcelona street. My overwhelming sadness was mixed with intense anger for the spitefully mean payments that have been made to the victims of 7/7 and their families - minsiscule amounts compared with the victims of the bombings in Madrid and New York, made worse by the pettyfogging and bureaucratic system of handing them out. Few things make me feel ashamed to be British but this is one of them

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