Holocaust Memorial Day: we need to reconcile the conflicting lessons of the the last century
Heavy-handed Iraq-style occupations are out, but so are Libya-style interventions on-the-cheap
Heavy-handed Iraq-style occupations are out, but so are Libya-style interventions on-the-cheap
According to the dictum attributed to Edmund Burke, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Yet evil will triumph even more easily if good men help the evil-doers. In the Syrian civil war, with more than 80,000 dead and no end in sight, that is what the European Union has been doing, by upholding an arms embargo on the supply of weapons to all sides.
Because the Spectator apparently doesn't believe in the right to reply
Anyone opposed to this shameful collusion with the hardline anti-immigration right should write to the Labour Party figures in question, or to their constituency parties, and make their feelings clear.