The Independent - London, November 23rd, 1995
It is a curious thing that just as the sacrament of confession is, historically, on the decline, so the confessional mode of public discourse is booming. It is apparently impossible to turn on the television in America now without seeing some celebrity in full confessional mode, revealing his (or more frequently her) childhood traumas, experience of abuse, eating disorders, drinking disorders, drug habit (now reformed), desire to cross- dress, etc etc. The Princess of Wales has drawn upon this form of discourse in her own soul-baring, indicating as she does so her high esteem for "honesty", as...
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