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This Blog In September 2001: Day Twenty-Five.
Theatre 'The Frieze' reviews Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave. One of the pivotal moments of the 1984/85 miner's strike was recreated in the style of medieval re-enactments. A heritage day out and social commentary all in one: "Any rail passengers staring out of the window as they sped through south Yorkshire on June 17th would have had the double-take of their lives: 800 or so miners and policemen, in period jeans and uniforms, could be seen slogging it out in a field as if no one had bothered telling them the miners' strike of 1984-5 had long been called off." Archaeology The Dead Sea Scrolls too fragile to travel. Oh really ... there has always been a debate within museum circles about the viability of moving objects for exhibition and whether the risks involved outweigh the educational value. To move the scrolls for an exhibition at the Olympics is surely for entertainment not education. Doesn't seem like a fair risk to me -- and surely they need the context of the original setting... Opinion The Sunday Post's usually mild mannered reporting has been overtaken by a mood of danger. Terrorists — are you listening . . . puts into words what many of us are thinking -- and without the cautiousness of London journalists: "Your goal was to divide us. You made us stronger. You brought us together. We are truly indivisible. United we stand, with liberty and justice for all. Even you. Be aware of the FBI. See them track your every move. Watch your back. Our armed forces are on your trail. Attention, terrorists . . . observe. Stop running for just a moment. Listen and look and smell and hear and feel. You must. But then resume running. You have the United States of America on your heels!" * * Editor's note. How times change. The old website for The Sunday Post only ever used a limited number of URLs for its news stories so when they posted something new, they'd just swap out the content of that page rather than generating a new one. The Wayback Machine only caught up with it in February 2002 so instead of 9/11 it's about Will Young winning Pop Idol. But someone reading the blog in October 2001 would also have seen some else too.
