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“Barnes does not attempt to examine, or even question, the validity or accuracy of Wolin's statements. Yet on this account, Wolin's book contains page after page of misrepresentations, cheap shots and cliches long discredited.”

As just one example: “it is well-accepted that the so-called "moral relativism" of Derrida (that "one political 'decision' seems as good as another") is a tired, inaccurate distortion of the work of a humane and brilliant man”.

Finally, new subscriber John Clarkson has a novel and non-toxic recipe to help the sugar farmers, “Use a sugar solution - 50 per cent sugar 50 per cent water - to spray grasshoppers in flight. It sticks their wings together and they fall to the ground. The birds can still eat them”.

(Yum, sugarcoated grasshoppers, what a crunchy taste treat…But I dread to think what it will do sunbaked on to the car duco!)

Maybe it would work on pesky politicians, too!