Time for NYC to brush off the ‘sacred’ dust of 9/11

Read spiked editor Mick Hume’s New York Notebook in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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‘Were all the construction workers, engineers and architects in New York wiped out on 9/11? The question occurred to me while standing at Ground Zero with the other tourists, gawping into the gap where the twin towers used to be as if it were one of the man-made wonders of the world. There seems no other rational reason why, as the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks nears, there should still be a huge hole in the heart of Lower Manhattan….’

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