http://www.dailymail....-But-traitor-too.html
/// If Communism had achieved its aims, but at the cost of, say, 15 to 20 million people - as opposed to the 100million it actually killed in Russia and China - would Hobsbawm have supported it? His answer was a single word: ‘Yes’. ///
/// Just imagine what would happen if some crazed Right-winger were to appear on BBC and say that the Nazis had been justified in killing six million Jews in order to achieve their aims. We should be horrified, and consider that such a person should never be allowed to speak in public again - or at least until he retracted his repellent views and admitted that he had been culpably, basely, wrong. ///
I like this line though:
/// Britain is a country where you can more or less say or think what you like. ///
I don't think so somehow, only some apparently are allowed to say what they like, thank goodness they haven't got around to banning thoughts yet.