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Even cynical rationalists have feelings

Paul Staines finds himself moved by a display of profoundly national sentiment

Have just finished listening to “The Falklands Play”. Looking out from my study, across the Thames over the House of Lords the Union flag is fluttering at half mast in an English spring breeze against a blue sky. A queue of thousands snakes from Westminster hall to pay their respects to the late Queen Mother.

Sometimes even a cynical rational Libertarian-republican-internationalist can cry.


The queue of mourners can seen backed up across Lambeth bridge and around further along the Thames Embankment

Paul Staines

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