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Conspicuous Compassion: Why Sometimes It Really is Cruel to be Kind
Contemporary Review, March, 2005
Conspicuous Compassion: Why Sometimes It Really is Cruel to be Kind. Patrick West. Civitas. [pounds sterling]7.50. viii + 79 pages. ISBN 1-903-386-34-9. Civitas, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, is famous for its publications which investigate modern society and say the unsayable, having already thought the unthinkable.
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This tract takes as its starting point the London-based hysteria that greeted the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Led by the gutter press and assisted by the new Blairite government, English reserve wilted in the face of the (largely peaceful) London mob. The flowers, the weeping and wailing, the emotionalism that swept over certain types of people indicate deeper, more fundamental changes in British life which are investigated here. Proof of the pudding, if proof were needed, was seen in January's 'three minute silence' ordered for those who died in the Tsunami. Where will it stop? This is a perceptive and challenging study of Blairite Britain in one of its most shallow and unattractive aspects and cannot be recommended highly enough. Civitas' email address is: books@civitas.org.uk and the website is www.civitas.org.uk (J.M.)
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