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Oh, so now you like democracy

If you believe Melanie Phillips in today’s Australian, “the Western Left” is being a little inconsistent with respect to its support for democracy in Egypt: Western progressives were shouting for regime change. At which point it began to seem that, like Alice, one had somehow been transported through the looking-glass. For during the past seven [...]

Oh, the incivility

Via Andrew Bolt – Richard Dawkins is a “barbarian” who needs “civilising” by Christianity, for comparing Steve Fielding to an earthworm, and he should be grateful that Christians won’t have his “head cut off” like he thinks muslims might. (I’m not sure that if I were a Christian I’d be content to hold myself to [...]