A festival of pre-emptive grovelling
The threat to artistic freedom comes not from Islamists but from an invertebrate cultural elite: read Mick Hume in The Times.

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Tuesday 12 August:
‘Have you heard about the first novel by a young American woman that has become the “new Satanic Verses”, sparking terrorist attacks on the publishers and riots by Islamic militants that make the protests against Salman Rushdie’s book look like an English tea party?…’
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