Jueves, 11 de mayo de 2006 (Continuación)

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By Camilla Cavendish (THE TIMES, 11/05/06):

FOUR YEARS AGO today, Diane Pretty died. Remember her? Or have you blotted out her fight to avoid the medieval death the law prescribed: to be slowly asphyxiated by the motor neuron disease paralysing her body until she was reduced to a shred, a shard of pain, an intelligent mind attached to a feeding tube? “Diane had to go through the one thing she had foreseen and was most afraid of,” her husband has said. “And there was nothing I could do to help.”

Our civilised society regularly puts dogs and cats out of their misery on compassionate grounds.…  Seguir leyendo »

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By Anatole Kaletsky (THE TIMES, 11/05/06):

EVERYONE HAS been quoting Enoch Powell’s famous maxim that “all political careers end in failure” since Tony Blair’s disastrous Cabinet reshuffle, a danse macabre that will be remembered as the most confused suicide pact in history.

If there was one thing Mr Blair was even more determined to do in his final year than democratise Iraq, rebuild the NHS and eliminate poverty in Africa, it was to be the first Prime Minister in history to escape the Prophecy of Enoch. Now he has failed. This is hardly surprising, since Mr Blair’s attempts to ward off the prophet’s dire tidings were as fatefully misguided as Macbeth’s decision to make his last stand on Dunsinane Hill.…  Seguir leyendo »