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11 years ago @ Heresy Corner - The Jihadist · 0 replies · 0 points

Brilliant H

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - \"Forced Caesarian\": ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Thanks H - a complex and worrying story.

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Selling Downton to the... · 0 replies · +2 points

Wonder if Brief Encounter has the same appeal in China that it does in Japan - that buttoned up Brit thing.

Never seen Downton myself. I managed to avoid Terry and June for decades then saw one episode on Dave last year and boy it was scary.

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - So what is Paul Dacre ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well at least Mehdi Hasan approves of him. . . Wonder what the odds are in mehdi becoming mail editor in a few years.

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Springtime for Godfrey · 0 replies · +1 points

This Bloom loves it H!

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Armchair generals unde... · 0 replies · +1 points

Excellent piece again H many thanks.

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - In Syria, the right th... · 0 replies · 0 points

Great to see Milliband standing up and saying 'Hold on'. Cameron's eagerness to embrace Obama on this is madness - as the Telegraph says he now looks spectacularly weak, being outflanked not just on the left but outflanked on the right of his own party, where Farage's scepticism has deep resonance.

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - In Syria, the right th... · 5 replies · +2 points

Definitely? If we are being literal, for Muslims it is taking place in the 14th century!

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - In Syria, the right th... · 7 replies · +2 points

Great piece H.

'The balance of probability at the moment must be that Western intervention will make the situation worse.'

Agree absolutely. This is an 8th or 9th century conflict - Sunni against Shia, Arab against Persian.

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Why do so many Nobel l... · 0 replies · +1 points

Craig Brown is a genius. Dawkins has had his share of exasperating encounters with Islamic obscurantism - eg on salt and fresh water not mixing - but he has acquired an aggressive persona and wants to live up to it. Alas.

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