Furthermore; I applaud the girls for taking the position they did, and admire their parents and their educators who no doubt laid down the moral and educational for their act.

A Krystalnacht’s dream?

Hitler IV (Parts I and II)?

Ahhh… they don’t write ‘em like that any more.

It’s true, he was anti-Semitic (although no more than anyone else was in Elizabethan times). There’s an awful line that occurs in a Romantic speech in Much Ado About Nothing where the hero says that if he couldn’t love the heroine he would be no better than a Jew and it killed the scene stone dead every night. It should have been cut because the effect on the audience was no longer the effect Shakespeare intended.

But prejudice is part of human nature, and there’s isn’t a writer on Earth that hasn’t consciously or unconsciously slagged one social group or another. It’s something we should be aware of and discuss and get over rather than censor and demonise (which is actually the same dynamic that creates bigotry in the first place).

Now do you think i might get away without writing any patient notes on the grounds of ‘invasion of privacy’??