Iranian ones were beyond reproach when they stamped their petulant little feet at the re-election of Ahmadinejad, for good or ill, by persons other than the North Tehran Trendies who alone are entitled to an opinion, including a vote.
But now, they have stormed the British Embassy because of our outrageous economic action against their country at the behest of a state which steals our citizens' identities in order to commit acts of international terrorism, ran a pirate foreign policy out of the office of our former Defence Secretary, and maintains the world's only threat of a nuclear attack upon a non-nuclear state.
A non-nuclear state with more women than men at university, with the most acclaimed cinema in the world, with better provision for small parties and for Independents than exists in many a United State of America, and with reserved parliamentary representation for Jews and for ancient indigenous Christians; in Israel, by contrast, the party of the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister seeks to denaturalise both the ultra-Orthodox Jews (as those in Iran would be classified) and the ancient indigenous Christians.
Tiny upper-middle-class children demonstrated against the hunting ban. A few years later, upper-middle-class teenagers demonstrated against the Iraq War. Do a little bit of mental arithmetic. They were right on both occasions. But you would never have guessed that from the wholly different ways in which they were treated both by the police and by the press. Plus ça change.
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Even Coughlin agrees with you on this one. No wonder the Henry Jackson/Euston Manifesto boys cannot put together a response to your next book, when one of them has broken ranks to quite this extent.
ReplyDeleteNot the first. Look at the then Michael Ancram MP.
ReplyDeleteSays the man bragging on Brogan's blog about how he set the police and social services on terrified students who had dared suggest that he was anything less than the Great I Am.
ReplyDeleteWhatever that might mean.
ReplyDeleteThe best that I can imiagine is that you are somehow referring to the following comment:
"Wrong on every single point. Quite an achievement. Probably got half of this from Oliver Kamm, on whom see certain links on the blogroll at http://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com.
Just so that readers are clear, an absurd little jumped up student publication called Palatinate, read by absolutely no one who matters, tried to peddle this rubbish in the jaw-droppingly naive belief that it could somehow remove me from the university that I have been ornamenting since its "writers" were still in primary school.
Needless to say, that never happened. Very far from it, in fact. They have been throwing this ever more ludicrous tantrum ever since. In reality, soon after they had had a go at me, but while I myself was actually under general anaesthetic on an operating table, their office was visited in a single morning by the police in relation to drugs and by social services in relation to ... well, you can guess.
They would hardly be in any position to comment even if they were not just making stuff up. Which they are. They are a disgrace to God's Own University, the patience of which with them, at the very highest levels, is on the brink of exhaustion. I am the very least of their worries."
Now, on topic, please.
As you yourself would say, Mr L., "Gosh." It is not just in ideology or in general ethos that your politics are those of the real old North East. If that is what happens to mere student hacks who mildly annoy you, what the f*ck do you do to your serious enemies? Being real old North East myself, I can guess. Never underestimate David Lindsay. Always obvious intellectually. Now just as obvious "organisationally."
ReplyDeletePlease do not swear on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI shall not be putting up any more off-topic comments.
No wonder Kamm and company won't write a response to your next book. You are now conducting a vendetta against him worse than he ever did without success against Neil Clark. Not only against him but apparently against anyone who has anything to do with him, even naive student journalists impressed by a leader writer on the Times. What did he ever do to you?
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