Grandstanding
There’s no denying that the Beijing National Stadium is an impressive building. Gordon Brown certainly seemed to enjoy his press conference there over the weekend.
The thing is, I can’t say I’m taken with the colour of the stadium as it is. It’s a sort of dirty grey. How did they get it like that? Was it Beijing’s smog (that Gordon mentioned it in passing during his photo opportunity)? Maybe the builders mixed into the concrete the ashes of their colleagues who’ve been killed (that Gordon didn’t mention in passing during his photo opportunity) during construction?
I don’t know about you, but dead builders seem quite a high price to pay for a bit of running and jumping about. The Chinese regime obviously think it’s a price worth paying to help rehabilitate its international reputation.
I suppose Peter Hain is too old to start digging up sports pitches again?
Posted on January 20th, 2008 at 6:34am under Brown, Culture, media and sport, Human rights
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Ah but don`t you know that we must embrace the brutal Chinese dictatorship, slipping one arm round its waist, nudging the nation`s groin up against China`s thigh while craning forward to give it a good snog?
Well…you know what I mean. There is no depth to which the freedom-loving leaders of the West will sink in order to help their corporate masters make a quicker, easier buck.