Letter From London

Letter From London We Unhappy Few ANTHONY EEJEUNE

England is a strange place these days, with the Beatles sitting at the feet of a constantly giggling Hindu mystic and Mick Jagger, the leader of the Rolling Stones, being deferentially in- terviewed on television by a bishop, the editor of the Times and a former Home Secretary. But among the more serious, even tragic, strangenesses I notice particularly the great gap be- tween the bitter unhappiness which some of us feel over what’s happened to Britain, an unhappiness which I find most movingly expressed in the letters middle-class readers, and the un- touched complacency of a large mass of the electorate.

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Anthony Lejeune

Letter From London We Unhappy Few ANTHONY EEJEUNE

England is a strange place these days, with the Beatles sitting at the feet of a constantly giggling Hindu mystic and Mick Jagger, the leader of the Rolling Stones, being deferentially in- terviewed on television by a bishop, the editor of the Times and a former Home Secretary. But among the more serious, even tragic, strangenesses I notice particularly the great gap be- tween the bitter unhappiness which some of us feel over what’s happened to Britain, an unhappiness which I find most movingly expressed in the letters middle-class readers, and the un- touched complacency of a large mass of the electorate.