Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

The BA row is about fair play

Rod Liddle says that the woman prevented from wearing her cross is demanding a level playing field, not the right to practise her religion. In this, she speaks for many people

issue 25 November 2006

First it was peanuts; now Jesus Christ has been banished from the cabins of British Airways aeroplanes. What will be next to fall victim to the apparently arbitrary scythe of censorship of the BA executives?

The airline — which once enraged Margaret Thatcher by replacing the Union flag on the tail fins of its fleet with representations of radical mullahs invoking intifada, single mums taking smack, colourful gypsies and homosexuals, or something — has aroused British public opprobrium once again.

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