Leading Article: Don't bank on them

Monday 31 August 1998 19:02 EDT
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BANK HOLIDAYS have lost not only the reason for their name, but also

the reasons for their existence. The banks are open, whatever the British

Government may say about it - traders in London yesterday were buying

and selling anything they wanted. Every nation needs a day for its families,

and people of every religion have a right to take their holy days off

work, but a multicultural society no longer needs the prop of manufactured

community. We should be able to take them whenever we want, just like

other holidays.

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