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Don’t stop to think about yesterday. . .

FOR years, the obituaries in our grander newspapers have been dominated by the intensely moving life stories of men who fought on against impossible odds, when all around them were dead, who flew badly damaged aircraft safely home despite terrible injuries and loss of blood, or who turned the tide of battle with a crazy charge. Then they went on to live ordinary, small, unnoticed lives. No more of that. On Thursday, The Times described the career of one of the new generation, now dying in their turn – the singer Christine McVie. It noted, when describing Fleetwood Mac, the group she sang for, that ‘they travelled by private plane with special aides assigned to carry the band’s drugs’. Well, there, this is the world all that fighting and dying made possible.

Peter Hitchens

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