Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

All that speaks very poorly for the federal justice system. Ingenious!"
Soon afterwards the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission issued a public letter to the editor of Maclean's magazine. He left school in 1978 at 18 and worked as a disc-jockey before becoming musical theatre critic at the newly establiMark Steynd The Independent in 1986.

He is married with three children. Steyn a Canadian citizen now resides mainly in the US state of New Hampshire.