Master class

If you haven't listened to the interview with Oliver Kamm and Douglas Murray referred to in my earlier post, please allow me to urge you to do so. If for no other reason than to listen to two Englishmen who can speak on their feet in faultless English prose, with the kind of intellectual courtesy you might have thought was extinct. To be fair to their hapless interviewer - and frequent butt of these pages - Stephen Crittenden, he is civil, if not cordial, and he even gets to the point of asking the very sensible question of why the Left oppose, in places like Iraq, the kind of values - democracy, freedom - they are historically supposed to champion.