I have just been listening to the latest Coldplay Album, Vida la Vida or Death And All His Friends. For young people, pop music is so much bound up with the search for identity that success can be hard to forgive, but for many of us simply interested in beautiful music, Coldplay must be just about the finest band today, in the very best tradition of Dire Straits and the Police.
If there's a better album this year, I'd like to hear it.
“. . . it lies within the power as well as the duty of all of us to recognize not only the possibility that we might be wrong but the virtual certainty that on some occasions we are bound to be. The fact that this is so does not absolve us from the duty of having views and putting them forward. But it does make it incumbent upon us to recognize the element of doubt that still surrounds the correctness of these views. And if we do that, we will not be able to lose ourselves in the transports of moral indignation against those who are of opposite opinion and follow a different line, we will put our views forward only with a prayer for forgiveness for the event that we prove to be mistaken.”
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