Good for anti-Blairists...just where is Robert Fisk?

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2006)

Here are a few nice pieces of symbolism that seem so far to have escaped public scrutiny. When the news of Diana's death is breaking, Prince Philip tells those watching about a huge stag that has wandered 'round for hunting. All are tuned to the telly at the time watching Bill Clinton on the news, someone who brought Hollywood to politics, or, rather, who ensured that Hollywood and politics in the modern age became forever ensconced. When the Queen comes into her own after being, in the movie, bullied by Blair, a stag is killed in a hunt. Is that a metaphor? You don't have to have been schooled in Eisenstein's Potemkin et al. to see and to hear that one loud and clear. Could it be the film maker's way of saying a big "we don't thank you kindly" now that the word is out that the CIA under Clinton bugged Diana the night of her death? Another good joke at Hollywood for you is this. There is a shot of real footage of Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Elton John and some non sequitorious others at the funeral. They are paid no heed. And well they should not be. Blair, in the end, looks like the idiot that Robert Fisk and others have made him out to be. He is absolutely Lord Blair. The one and the same Lord Blair that Prince Charles has tried to make sure doesn't hurt forever the history of the United Kingdom.