Puzzlement and delight
Sir: I read the article by David Selbourne (‘We are living in a state of emergency’, 29 March) with a mixture of delight and puzzlement; delight at the argument thereof — apart from the references to Cromwell, whose republican experiment ended in failure in 1660 with the Restoration — and puzzlement to the authorship.
Can this be the same David Selbourne who argued in a previous issue (‘No more Pax Americana’, 14 April 2007) that he hoped resurgent Islam would arise again and punish us all for our wickedness? Are there two David Selbournes or is there only one, who has had a Pauline conversion, and now understands the real menace of Islamist fascism and the need for proper pride in our present liberal democracies and their collective heritages?
I think we should be told.
John Draper
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