In this week's Spectator
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On the face of it, the Robinson scandal is about hypocrisy, staggering hypocrisy. But there is more to it than that. Rod Liddle is convinced that Northern Ireland’s First Minister and his wife held religious beliefs that made ordinary life – and marriage – impossible.
The British military has been horribly overstretched by the wars of the Labour years, says Max Hastings. But the Tories’ only option will be to cut further still. Hideous decisions lie ahead.
On his latest trip to Africa, Matthew Parris noticed that where there are white 'overlander' tourists, and especially white overlanding women, there are black dreadlocked men.
Another week, another plot and still the Labour leadership issue remains unresolved. James Forsyth examines Labour’s cycle of deceit.
Michael Kennedy reflects that in his sixty years as a music critic the most surprising development has been the huge growth in Mahler’s popularity.
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Peter From Maidstone
January 14th, 2010 6:32pm Report this commentRod Liddle is foul mouthed and an anti-religious bigot. He is not much different to the Muslims he is happy to condemn in that he thinks that his views must prevail, and is both unconcerned with respecting the views of others (not the Robinsons but most Christians), and chooses to (ab)use the power he has gathered to himself to eliminate other opinions. I will not be reading the Independent and would rather not have him write for the Spectator. He is not a conservative, and his pieces are increasingly deliberately and lazily offensive. He does not deserve free speech (and it is not free as I have to buy the Spectator) because he has nothing worth saying and is the literary equivalent of Gordon Ramsey, thinking that simply being offensive is enough.
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