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This is beyond satire. If I was to draw up a list of the most dangerously wrong-headed people in Britain today, the Indie's hilarious list would be the perfect starting point.
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Jaw-dropping, definitely. They are wrong on Bob Geldof, who is a real human being, and may, for all I know, be wrong on one or two of the people I do not know - e.g. the hospice founder. But anyone insane enough to place Tariq Ramadan in a list of do-gooders lives in an upside-down world. And most of the rest are staggeringly, insanely bad choices for anyone who knows what ethics is.
I like Rabbi Lionel - especially the way he says "Good morning" to everyone on the Today programme including the doorman and the tea lady. Also Camilla the Pied Piper. A good egg as far as I can see.
Jon Snow is an aggressive & prejudiced broadcaster as well as being economical with the truth - remember the "interview" where he said about Qassam rockets "Rockets - pretty pathetic things, nobody gets injured..." - tell that Mr Snow to the families of the 13 dead & hundreds injured and hospitalized by these attacks from Gaza..
John Bell broadcast falsehoods which were never properly retracted on Thought for the Day in February 2005.
If these are the standards of this panel of experts - then Stephen is absolutely correct "heaven help us"!
By my reckoning one of the fifty works in manufacturing industry (it might have been two, but Anita Roddick's fallen from grace these days). Clearly at the Indie they live by hot air alone.
"First we kill all the lawyers" (or something like that) which was one of the best lines Shakespeare ever wrote. I think Will, if he'd seen this list, would have added "Second we get rid of this lot"
P. J. O'Rourke did a revamped 'enemies list' in Give War A Chance about 15 years ago. This is the 21st Century version. Bruce Kent, Mark Malloch Brown and Shirley Williams? It is to weep.