tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post2624197660192145975..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Half-right, anywayHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-57477757272603043142010-10-06T11:41:52.000+01:002010-10-06T11:41:52.000+01:00Too true. He did make the odd trip to buy goodies....Too true. He did make the odd trip to buy goodies. Apologies for the mistake. I had better read up a better biography of Lord Leighton before I start accusing anyone of anything, even of just plain rudeness. I believe, incidentally, that her name is Ms Alibhai Brown.Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-81093450317520850182010-10-03T12:58:13.000+01:002010-10-03T12:58:13.000+01:00Before you accuse Ms Brown of not knowing her fact...Before you accuse Ms Brown of not knowing her facts, you should check yours. To say Leighton never went further than Itlay is completley wrong. He made numerous trips to North Africa and the Middle East. Where do you think he got the tiles etc for the Arab Hall? The Leighton House website tells us Damascus.Benjamin Jonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-50444738739550526902010-10-03T05:32:46.000+01:002010-10-03T05:32:46.000+01:00I heard Alibhai Brown talking about her upbringing...I heard Alibhai Brown talking about her upbringing in East Africa and owning up to the fact that her parents' generation and predecessors had been pretty beastly to the native Africans, behaving in a most superior manner.<br /><br />A funny thing then that she continues the tradition here, hectoring and lecturing us aboriginals and keeping us in our proper station as grateful recipients of the civilising effects of multiculturalism.<br /><br />The Arab slave trade is, of course, one of the great unmentionables as it doesn't fit the mindset of unique Western guilt. General Gordon knew that the Dharfur region of Sudan was one of its great centres and the tradition certainly carries on in the Sudan, as Baroness Cox demonstrated.Edward Spaltonnoreply@blogger.com