Arty McBain is a former Conservative Party official who has recently returned from an advising a foreign centre-right movement.
What on Earth is going on at The Times?
We have sat uneasily as we read its equivocation about the Sri Lankan people’s final victory over the the world’s most sadistic communist rebellion after a 26 year war. We have gasped at its South Asia correspondent’s plea for sanctions against Sri Lanka in the wake of its democratically elected government’s victory. But this week, we reeled as The Times ran this deranged leader parroting Soviet-era communist propaganda about the Spanish Civil War.
Those of us who can remember before 1989 were suddenly plunged back into the bizarre world of socialist reality that we used to read in the Morning Star and a thousand other socialist rags: a world in which friendly communists with their peaceful death squads bravely defended freedom and democracy from vicious fascists thanks to the help of sunny Uncle Joe, while the democratically elected villains of the West shamefully looked the other way.
Bear with me on this. We need to go on a short journey.
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