Summary
Each was subtly different, issued by Alastair Campbell at weekends when news was light. I noted the following headlines, mostly in the London Evening Standard: 'Dirty bomb on London Tube', 'Killer Bug Threat to London', 'Full Smallpox Terror Alert', 'Terror Threat to Xmas Shopping', 'Muslim Festival Terror Threat' and 'SAM Missile Launchers at Heathrow'.
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Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
'And the clouds came flying through the air bringing winds and hurling lightning and arrows, and it rained hail, fire and swords, and killed a great number of people.' So cried the Florentine monk Savonarola of the coming Day of Judgment in 1492. The terrified citizens duly rose and followed him into a disastrous alliance with Italy's new conqueror, Charles VIII of France. Four years later they had had enough of Savonarola's apocalyptic waffle, dragged him from his monastery and hanged him.
Whenever I hear Tony Blair nowadays, I think of Savonarola. In his passionate foreign policy apologia in Sedgefi...See the full content of this document
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