Images of Displeasure

Nicholas Spice

  • If not now, when? by Primo Levi, translated by William Weaver
    Joseph, 331 pp, £10.95, April 1986, ISBN 0 7181 2668 8
  • The Afternoon Sun by David Pryce-Jones
    Weidenfeld, 214 pp, £8.95, March 1986, ISBN 0 297 78822 1
  • August in July by Carlo Gebler
    Hamish Hamilton, 188 pp, £9.95, March 1986, ISBN 0 241 11787 9

Norman Tebbit, Conservative Party Chairman, was displeased by television coverage of the American attack on Libya. British public opinion had swung so decisively against the raid, he said, because of the pictures people had seen on their television sets. Not pictures of bombed-out military installations, which would have been all right, but pictures of dead and wounded civilians. Pictures, in fact, not unlike those pictures of Mr Tebbit which became emblematic of the Brighton bombing two years ago, and which doubtless did a lot to turn the public against the justice of that assault too.

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