A couple of hours ago, on initially seeing this image, I was startled into thinking I thought I’ve been even more out of the news that I have in fact been, managing to miss an entire G8 summit. This stunning photograph, an addition to the photostream of a new Flickr contact had me jumping onto Google News to see what the Group of Eight had been up to recently, only to dig deeper and find that the demonstration shown here took place in July 2005. Phew. This particularly resonated with me because I found out today that over the past week I’d missed the whole news about a number of British Navy Seamen being held captive by Iranian force in the Gulf. News of ‘aveux contraints’, ‘political sacrifices’, ‘la patience et la détermination’, les ‘bras de fer’ et ‘les libérations dès que possible’ all around, and me in center of European international cooperation, oblivious. Oops. Clearly I’ve been reading the wrong news. Less Sopranos, tvs and more international politics I think.
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