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Moral sainthood is a bore; sinners are much more fun

As long, that is, as the sinners sin against themselves and not others

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

Gstaad

I had the rather subversive idea of offering a six-figure sum to Oriel College, Oxford. On one condition: that the college immediately withdraw the Rhodes scholarship from the South African Ntokozo Qwabe, the hypocrite who led the campaign to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes, and from any other recipients of Cecil’s munificence who are blackening his name a century later.

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