5 Feet of Fury

”You’re against stoning, you must be a prozzie!’ seems an unbelievably low level of political discourse’

Julie Burchill writes:

But when you consider that only three years ago an Islamic school in London was revealed by Newsnight to have school textbooks which, at one time, described Jews as apes and Christians as apes, dogs and pigs, it’s actually rather sophisticated.

I must say that I was perplexed, though, by the reference to Mrs Sarkozy as a “hypocrite”, while drawing ungentlemanly attention to her sexual generosity over the years.

(Sexual charity, even, if you count Mick Jagger, who looks as if a very bored giant practised origami on his face for a very long time.)