These numbered stones, with their inherent
contrast of human labour and the monumental timescale of geology, catalyse thoughts of mortality, of catalogues of the vanished and anonymous.
At the time, it was part
of a civil rights agenda being set by the then
Labour opposition, which included such things as the
Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark
contrast to the authoritarian approach
of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.
Students are up for it Students, in marked
contrast to either the
Labour government or Conservative opposition, are excited by the concept
of human rights.