The IRA sending a message of ...

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
 Simon Heffer

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This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.
 Simon Heffer
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.
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