Francis Wheen in yesterday's Evening Standard (but not online):
Bad news for London's Mayor: he has a humiliating cameo role in the latest issue of America's most venerable Left-wing journal, Dissent. In an illuminating account of how the remnants of the radical Left in Britain have aligned themselves with fundamentalist Muslims, it mentions Ken Livingstone's embrace of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Qatar-based cleric who supports homophobia, suicide-bombers in Palestine and the subordination of women. For the benefit of American readers who haven't heard of Livingstone, the author describes him as 'Galloway-lite'. Even before Celebrity Big Brother, this would have been pretty rude. Since the recent televised shenanigans, it is surely the most wounding insult in the political lexicon.(Thanks: NC.)