Miércoles, 7 de junio de 2006 (Continuación)

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By Alice Miles (THE TIMES, 07/06/06):

I really hate finding myself on the side of the paranoid. I want to be on the team which coolly says, as clever, sceptical readers did in letters to The Times yesterday, that intelligence is probably wrong; that the police and Home Office cannot be trusted; and that we ordinary people talk rot about chemical weapons without knowing about that of which we speak.

I want to be in their gang. Not in Donald Begbie’s. Mr Begbie, who I dare say represents the views of much of Britain, wrote in alarmist terms to the Daily Express two years ago after an outbreak of the media heebies about osmium tetroxide, a chemical reported to be highly toxic and which was to be detonated as a huge “dirty bomb” in a busy shopping centre.…  Seguir leyendo »

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By Magnus Linklater (THE TIMES, 07/06/06):

NONE OF US knows how we will respond to extreme danger until it happens. Will we freeze in panic? Scream uncontrollably? Or set about methodically helping others?

All three reactions are described in the testimony of those who survived the London bombings. But what emerges powerfully, movingly, and at times inspirationally, are story after story of calmness and courage, modesty and self-deprecating humour.

They seem at times to belong to another era. People form orderly queues in conditions of stark horror as smoke swirls around them and Tube tunnels threaten to collapse; a man holds the hand of a dying passenger and looks into his eyes as he tells him that everything will be all right; a commuter stops his companion lapsing into unconsciousness by talking to him about England’s rugby team, then apologises for choosing such a depressing subject; a badly injured woman refuses an ambulance and tells a nurse that there are others who need it more than she does.…  Seguir leyendo »