Free Republic

The good news is that Tam Dalyell's outburst to Vanity Fair — in which he suggested Tony Blair was unduly influenced by a Jewish cabal — has not been ignored. His remarks made all the papers, proof that anti-semitism is no longer an uncontroversial part of public conversation. That's welcome. If there is bad news it's that Dalyell has been treated as a naughty boy — "incorrigible," said Peter Mandelson — rather than as a man who has uttered a racist slur. Bad news, too, that so far much of the condemnation has come from Jews rather than Dalyell's comrades...