Listen up all you rank sentimentalists in Red America–Gwyneth Paltrow says it’s time for you–yes you!–to get over 9/11:
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.
Meanwhile, the great Theodore Dalrymple illustrates that if Britain has gotten over 7/7 as Gwyneth claims, they have other, more immediate tragedies to consume their grief:
The death from alcoholism at 59 of a famous soccer player has proved that the mass hysteria that followed Princess Diana
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