Reply #11: It isn't just islamists who object to "British" values [View All]

[Briar]

"Gordon Brown has long argued that Britishness is about values rather than institutions, and he is right, up to a point. Those values, moreover, are intrinsically hateful to the medieval mindset of al-Qaeda. Like other western and non-western nations, we have a history of promoting the type of gender, racial and sexual equality reviled by misogynistic mujahids."

Fundamentalist christians in the US and UK do as well, and as far as human rights are concerned, the massed ranks of the Tory Party, the Murdoch media and large sections of the Bliar government are also lined up in common loathing of the European Human Rights Act and those among us whom it protects.

The mean swipe at Livingstone is a give away, of course. Hunt's problems with freedom of speech obviously also extend to allowing those he disagrees with to have a chance to put their views openly.