Quote of the day 23rd September 2019
"Pain is universal.
Black, white, rich, poor, Muslim, Christian, gay, heterosexual, it doesn't matter who you are; the pain of losing a child is like ripping out your heart.
A part of you, blood and flesh, is gone. it is unspeakable and intolerable.
Last week the Guardian published (and then retracted) an article in which it dismissed the loss of the former prime minister David Cameron's eldest son, Ivan, as only 'privileged pain'."
"Well, I don't know about Guardian writers, but I would choose family and health over money every day. I would give away all my privilege and money to have my son back.
I am certainly no apologist for Cameron but to describe the loss of Ivan as privileged pain is grotesque and deeply offensive to the many thousands of us who have lost children of our own."
"There is no privilege in losing a child."
"There is no privilege in holding your dead son in your arms."
(Ben Fogle, extracts from an article in yesterday's Sunday Times in response to the Guardian leader mentioned.)
Black, white, rich, poor, Muslim, Christian, gay, heterosexual, it doesn't matter who you are; the pain of losing a child is like ripping out your heart.
A part of you, blood and flesh, is gone. it is unspeakable and intolerable.
Last week the Guardian published (and then retracted) an article in which it dismissed the loss of the former prime minister David Cameron's eldest son, Ivan, as only 'privileged pain'."
"Well, I don't know about Guardian writers, but I would choose family and health over money every day. I would give away all my privilege and money to have my son back.
I am certainly no apologist for Cameron but to describe the loss of Ivan as privileged pain is grotesque and deeply offensive to the many thousands of us who have lost children of our own."
"There is no privilege in losing a child."
"There is no privilege in holding your dead son in your arms."
(Ben Fogle, extracts from an article in yesterday's Sunday Times in response to the Guardian leader mentioned.)
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