Quite apart from the fact that she no longer lives in Britain, domestic policy causes such as the struggles against drugs and pornography would now be better off without Melanie Phillips. And "I saw on it on YouTube so it must be true"? That is The Times these days, is it?
Phillips has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years. She not only expects her audience to believe that Tony Blair was sincere about there having been weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but she also expects her audience to think that those weapons really did exist, hidden in chambers under the Euphrates. Presumably, they are still there.
Phillips has taken to purveying the notion that there is an alliance of Leftists, Islamists and neo-Nazis against Israel, Red-Green-Black, "the Palestinian colours". Of course, the colour of Nazi parties is brown; black is Christian Democrats and that sort of thing. Moreover, the Browns have been lined up with Israel for decades, and if you think that that is "ironic" or something, then you do not know what you are talking about. Israeli flags are ubiquitous at Far Right events the world over, and have been throughout this century. Well, of course.
Nick Griffin has not mattered in that world in years; he is no "Tommy Robinson". Griffin was at least ostensibly pro-Israeli when he managed to be elected, and most people assume that he has become a security asset acting as an agent provocateur, if he has ever been anything else. Would that we could hold out such hope for Phillips.
Could we get the Emiratis to buy the Times?
ReplyDeleteIf only. My office there would have contained Oliver Kamm, stuffed and mounted. I would have charged people to have been photographed with him, and I would have sold plastic miniatures of him, ideally ones that had glowed in the dark. What tune should I have wired him up to have played, how much money should punters have had to have inserted to hear that, and whereabouts upon him should they have inserted it?
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