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Saddam Hussein: In 2003, the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad shortly after the Iraq invasion was widely publicised and praised in the UK. The statue was pulled down by US marines after several unsuccessful attempts by Iraqi civilians, and strangely no-one seemed to mind too much about ‘erasing history’ then.

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The Telegraph and Fascism

The Telegraph and Fascism

The people who shout “fascist” at every challenge to that coalition are not defending liberalism. They are defending their own preferred form of control. And in doing so, they are helping to till the very ground in which real authoritarianism can take root.

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