The Booker Prize for ignorance
Sadly, no surprise that this literary award has succumbed to our cultural madness
Scarcely a day goes past without some cultural titan or other jumping on the anti-west bandwagon. Apart from the intolerance, prejudice and gross abuse of power usually involved, what never fails to stupify is also the extent of the ignorance that it displays.
Consider. The shortlist for the Booker Prize for fiction has been announced. Today’s Times (£) …
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