GROSS-ME-OUT LEFT

John Gross has a particularly acute piece in the current New Criterion about the baleful influence of the pomo left in the BBC, Britain’s once great institution of objective journalism. I was unaware of the following quote from a columnist in the Guardian but it says a lot about both the incoherence and malevolence of many on the hard left: “The smile on the face of the suicide bomber has as much to do with true humour and laughter as the rictus incantation “Have a nice day” in the supermarket checkout. Both are debased forms of totalitarianism.” Clever? In a way, I suppose. Depraved? Absolutely. And these are people in Blair’s coalition. No wonder he looks exhausted.