The black hole of Greenwich
SHORTLY before the Millennium Dome opened in Greenwich at the turn of the year, Tony Blair dismissed the project's critics as cynics who “despise anything modern and are made uneasy by success”. The dome's contents, he insisted, would be “the greatest show on earth”.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The black hole of Greenwich”
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