remembering scarlatti

Susan Elizabeth Leinbach, 28/11/1966 - 15/6/2006

safe journey, my friend.

oh, this is good

Jackie Ashley interviews Melanie Phillips.

"Phillips is quick to take offence. That she has just compared a gentle, quizzical interviewer to a complacent pre-Nazi-era German and to Stalin might - just might - have struck others as potentially offensive. That she finds a continuum between law-abiding, peaceful Muslim fellow citizens and terrorists might - just might - strike others as potentially "inflammatory". That her newspaper, the Daily Mail, pursues anyone who dares criticise it by vilifying them for years afterwards might - just might - strike her as an example of the intellectual bullying she attacks. And perhaps her emailing my editor before I have even sat down at the keyboard to write this article is, at the very least, unusually defensive behaviour."

more here (from the Guardian>