John Baker’s Blog

Some suggestions:
“strip-searching people who look like they’re from the Middle East or from Pakistan”, preventing Muslims from travelling, and further down the road, deportation.
“Not the ramblings of a British National Party thug,” writes Terry Eagleton, professor of cultural theory at Manchester University, “but the reflections of Martin Amis, leading luminary of the English metropolitan literary [...]

During the last years our politicians, playing to the lowest common denominator, have stressed the existence of evil in the world and the need to combat it. George Bush gave us the axis of evil; before him Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as the evil empire; and over images of British soldiers being killed [...]