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I have absolutely no sympathy for liberals who find themselves being called ‘right-wing’

If you transgress any of a vast array of PC shibboleths, fury will rain down on you

Trevor Phillips Photo: Getty 
issue 21 March 2015

This week I would like you to share the deep pain of a liberal who has been called ‘right-wing’. This is a terrible thing to happen. It is hard to think of anything worse. There you are, being dutifully liberal all over the place and suddenly, perhaps inadvertently, you divest yourself of the opinion that — for example — Islam may, in some way, have some sort of weird, unfathomable connection to the jihadists of the Islamic State and kaboom, your credibility is blown to shreds.

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