shame they got my gender wrong. It must be a sub-editing thing, because wendyg is well aware of my gurleyness.
Tag: guardian
oh, this is good
Jackie Ashley interviews Melanie Phillips.
“Phillips is quick to take offence. That she has just compared a gentle, quizzical interviewer to a complacent pre-Nazi-era German and to Stalin might – just might – have struck others as potentially offensive. That she finds a continuum between law-abiding, peaceful Muslim fellow citizens and terrorists might – just might – strike others as potentially “inflammatory”. That her newspaper, the Daily Mail, pursues anyone who dares criticise it by vilifying them for years afterwards might – just might – strike her as an example of the intellectual bullying she attacks. And perhaps her emailing my editor before I have even sat down at the keyboard to write this article is, at the very least, unusually defensive behaviour.”
more here (from the Guardian>