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  Today's emotional incontinence irritates those of us who grew up during the Blitz
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AuthorNorman Tebbit
News DateFriday, July 16, 2010 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionWho would disagree with what the Prime Minister said on Wednesday about both Raoul Moat and those who have begun to idolise his memory? Well, to judge by the piles of flowers and the Facebook contributions, quite a lot of people would.
Ever since the death of Princess Diana there has been not so much a fashion for emotional incontinence as a glut of it looking for somewhere to happen. Scarcely a school's pet hamster can die without children being expected to fall tearfully into each others' arms. That lack of self-control or sense of proportionality seems to spill over into a romanticism of violence, and then uncontrolled sentimentality over its fruits.
Perhaps in my reactions to it I may be showing some of the same symptoms, but I cannot help feel that those of us who grew up in the shadow of nightly lethal violence, but were expected to turn up at school on time, in uniform, with homework neatly completed, after a night in an air raid shelter, are more than irritated by the shoddy make believe hysteria which seems de-rigueur these days.
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