who's berserk?

(via) From Nick Cohen’s Standard Column today, reproduced at his web site under the title All the Liberals Go Berserk

The Fabians once formed Labour’s reasonable brigade, but I found the PM had driven them mad.

And

They just wanted a pretext for rage.

Sounds like a pretty fraught event, what with all these incoherent, purple faced liberals frothing at brave, lonely Nick, as he put the case for the liberatin’ left. However, if you look at the Fabian Society’s own account of the debate, you get the usual worthy and soporific panel discussion, where Nick was supported by fellow interventionist John Lloyd and there was a fair amount of consensus at the necessity of military intervention in some cases.

Who’s berserk here? Now if I was running this sort of event for the Fabians maybe next time I wouldn’t invite someone so intent on abusing my employers’ hospitality. Then Nick would write a column about how his voice had been silenced because the liberals were maddened by hatred and couldn’t bear to hear the truth. Undaunted, Nick will go on with the greatest intellectual struggle of our time.

Comments

[Backword Dave]

That Nick, he's so spirited! ;)

[Saneman]

Funny, just read that on the train yesterday (the ES is a newspaper easily discarded), and I thought the exact same thing. Even without having the Fabians' account, he sounds totally unhinged. Knowing that he was a panellist, weel, he looks pretty ashamed of his opinions.

[Mark Elf]

I think poor Nick has gone bonkers. It seems to be an affliction suffered by many of the pro-war and pro-Israel "left" but Nick's writing is starting to look like that of Melanie Phillips. Look what he said on my blog and in subsequent emails. He seems to have closed his comments as a result of that little fiasco.