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Title: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Roses on August 12, 2022, 06:49:21 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-62524833

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 13, 2022, 09:48:24 AM

Frightening madness

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Roses on August 13, 2022, 12:24:30 PM

It is very tragic indeed.  :o

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2022, 10:37:59 AM

Good editorial in the Observer


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/14/the-observer-view-on-the-attack-on-salman-rushdie


Also rewatched this yesterday from Question Time wgen he was awarded a knighthood. Remember being hugely disappointed in Shirley Williams at the time. Warning: contains Boris Johnson being a prick.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVA4EAP_S0&feature=youtu.be

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Steve H on August 14, 2022, 01:55:18 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2022, 10:37:59 AM

Also rewatched this yesterday from Question Time wgen he was awarded a knighthood. Remember being hugely disappointed in Shirley Williams at the time. Warning: contains Boris Johnson being a prick.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gEVA4EAP_S0&feature=youtu.be

One reasonable person (Williams), one person I've never heard of, and three utter twats (Johnson, Hitchens and Hitchens). Being deaf, I watched it with subtitles on. The questioner apparently referred to Rushdie's nightshirt!

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2022, 01:57:08 PM

Quote from: Steve H on August 14, 2022, 01:55:18 PM

One reasonable person (Williams), one person I've never heard of, and three utter twats (Johnson, Hitchens and Hitchens).

And yet Hitchens C was right, and Williams sold Rushdie down the river here.

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Steve H on August 14, 2022, 02:02:25 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2022, 01:57:08 PM

And yet Hitchens C was right, and Williams sold Rushdie down the river here.

Even utter twats can be right occasionally, and even usually reasonable people can occasionally disappoint.

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2022, 02:06:33 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/14/salman-rushdie-is-off-ventilator-and-able-to-talk-agent-says

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2022, 02:10:13 PM

Quote from: Steve H on August 14, 2022, 02:02:25 PM

Even utter twats can be right occasionally, and even usually reasonable people can occasionally disappoint.

I think if you dislike someone, as you obviously do with Hitchens, it's no guarantee that they are wrong any more often than someone you like.

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Steve H on August 14, 2022, 02:27:10 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 14, 2022, 02:10:13 PM

I think if you dislike someone, as you obviously do with Hitchens, it's no guarantee that they are wrong any more often than someone you like.

The thing is, I more often than not agree with Hitchens C; I just can't stand his manner.

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 15, 2022, 06:25:04 PM

Alex Massie on Sadowitz, Rushdie, and Rowling

https://archive.ph/CBT7C

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 23, 2022, 06:49:54 PM

Update on Rushdie


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/23/salman-rushdie-has-lost-sight-in-one-eye-and-use-of-one-hand-says-agent

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 03, 2023, 11:31:14 PM

Congratulations Salman Rushdie, recipient of the Hay Festival 2023 Medal for Prose.

Title: Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck
Post by: ad_orientem on June 04, 2023, 01:41:16 PM

Fully deserved!