Sackcloth and ashes – the new black
Read Mick Hume's columns this week in The Times (London).

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Tuesday 24 April
‘As students returned to Virginia Tech yesterday, the college rang a bell for each of the 32 victims of the massacre. But to judge by the discussion of the past week, there is another potential victim for whom the bell could be tolling: freedom.’
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