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My civilisation is better than yours

7 July 2018

9:00 AM

7 July 2018

9:00 AM

Am I the only one who finds the Ramsay Western civilisation controversy unedifying? As I read the warring op-eds I am reminded of those heated, yet futile, undergraduate arguments which Monty Python and others satirised so well.

Picture John Cleese and Michael Palin on a stage. Cleese says in his best Basil Fawlty voice, ‘my civilisation is better than yours’.

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