don't you have it?

Published: December 5, 2007, 2:38 pm

Mart was in town last night. So was Maureen Freely: And before we go any further, let me say that what I have always admired about Martin Amis is the way he tests himself and his readers: pushing his ideas to the extreme, speaking the unspeakable, and in so doing capturing the spirit of the age. I was appalled and disturbed but not particularly shocked by the things Terry Eagleton and Ronan Bennett quoted him as saying. But they were pretty mild compared to off-the-record, after-dinner thought experiments I've heard from other, cagier members of the intelligentsia over the past six years. Ok, let's take this from the top. What can we do to raise the price of them doing this? There's a definite urge don't you have it? to say, The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order.' What sort of suffering? Not letting them travel. Deportation further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms. Strip-searching people who look like they're from

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