On last night's Question Time, the panel featured Daniel Hannan, who recently claimed that the Nazis had murdered only 17 million people. That little bit of revisionism, to put it euphemistically, is popular among the more pro-NATO elements in Eastern Europe. But it has come to something when it is not considered sufficient to disqualify one from a seat around the Question Time table. Or, indeed, from a column on the Daily Telegraph.
If it is not Hannan, then it is Barmy Ben Bradshaw, who is peddling his pitch for a bad James Bond parody that would be far below the wit of Kingsman or even of Austin Powers. Again, though, all the broadcasters apart from RT are lapping it up and regurgitating it, while the senior newspaper of the Anglophone liberal tradition has become completely hysterical in its propagation of this lunacy.
Notice that everyone who believes it also believed that the 9/11 attacks came from Afghanistan, that there was an entity called "al-Qaeda", that there was a "global terrorist network" encompassing all and sundry, that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that the rebels in Libya and Syria were a cross between the Lib Dems and the Boy Scouts, and that the same was true of those who staged the coup in Ukraine. To this day, they sincerely believe in the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme, in that as a threat to Britain, and in such a threat from North Korea. How are these people still permitted in public life? How are they permitted, or even able, to go about the basic tasks of daily life?
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