THE toppling of a dummy of George Bush in Trafalgar Square on Thursday was one of this year’s low points. The hideousness and nihilism of the thought which animated it - that Bush equals Saddam - point again to the fevered, media-blasted thoughtlessness of much current politics, and suggest that people now are stirred to activism largely in order to demonstrate their moral superiority. But, in this case, actually demonstrate their vacuity. The toppling of statues has been an image of freedom in these past two decades. I saw the greatest (I think) of these - the pulling down...