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This is an inane, ghastly mass celebration of a man 500 years dead, who has no possible merit to recommend him other than the fact that he fought a hideous war for naked power, that for a time he sat on the top of a heap of corpses, and that for a time he wore the worthless robes of a Head of State. In 500 years I suppose we can line the streets to salute the reinterment of Mr. Stalin’s mortal remains. «The discovery has encouraged scholars to look again at Richard’s record of social reform, rather than rely on Shakespeare’s Tudor-era portrayal of him as a villainous tyrant murderer.» Of course the Tudors spread a lot of ridiculous propaganda. But good God of course Richard III was a villainous tyrant murderer. He was a King, after all. http://ift.tt/1G2igON