The National Front and the Oxford Union
It seems a most unlikely coupling of organisations (if we can so dignify the National Front). It is a total mystery to me why an august institution like the Oxford Union should want to ask Nick Griffin of the National Front, and David Irving the historian who denies the Holocaust. It seems to be a drive to sensationalise rather than to engage in serious political debate. Meanwhile the threat of violence outside will certainly cause trouble for the Police and the forces of law and order, and subject the citizens of Oxford to unnecessary trauma.
Dr Julian Lewis, the Conservative MP who has resigned his lifetime membership of the Oxford Union, is to be congratulated on his stand. He has said that the only good thing about this sorry episode is to unite leading members of the Jewish Faith and the Islamic Faith in condemnation of the event. Perhaps some good may come out of it after all.
