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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The People
Anthony Daniels, aka Theodore Dalrymple, on a nightclub fire in Buenos Aires:
'The people' are sacrosanct, beyond unfavourable remark. What thousands or millions of people do cannot be wrong. Their worthless tastes, their vulgar habits, their frequently antisocial conduct, must never be criticised.