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One of those searing articles whose passionate articulation of the truth is acutely painful to read - so distressing is its subject matter. Permit me to say, then, MW, that you’ve done us all a great service in analysing it so frankly and fearlessly. What can one say? It is so profoundly morally abysmal it leaves one speechless. -Almost.

Back in the day, I used to submit the odd play to the RC and was invited to attend their “writers workshop” (a stupid communist [Brechtian] phrase that has tragically entered modern literary consciousness). The experience was so disillusioning (in my early 30s), with drama addressed from a ruthlessly utilitarian “Marxian perspective, that it became obvious to me I had no future in theatre. As we have seen: All other theatres would subsequently go the same way, so that the average theatre goer was left with a stark choice between endless trashy musicals, or mediocre revivals bastardised by insultingly diverse casts, or straight leftist agit-prop drama.

The takeover (ie., abject surrender) of theatre in this country, which began in the late 50s, with Ken Tynan’s ‘angry young men’ cadre, is now horrifyingly complete, resulting in this obscene Muslim play inverting reality at the RC.

In reality I believe there are stages to Civil War: the so-called ‘culture wars’ are just the first phase in which the battle of ideas is fought out . But inevitably that intellectual battle finds embodiment in the form of an ensuing actual physical battle fought on behalf of those ideas - just as it was throughout Europe in the wars and revolutions from 1917 onwards.

People moot the possibility of it, but the blunt fact is that we are all already at war, we just don’t know it yet. But when the time does come, when Balkanisation does occur in Europe, as it will and must, it is writing such as yours that will prove to be the rallying point of our cause. There’s a heroism in that.

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Good article. The play sounds beyond parody. Academia being “far right”? Absurd.

Also, are all Muslim apostates who drink alcohol named after their chosen tipple? If there’s one called Stella, there must be Carlings, Malibus, & Double-Bells-and-Cokes…?

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