Fiery Red Ken

Ken Livingstone has been suspended from office for four weeks for his "Nazi jibe" at a Jewish reporter last year. All my sympathies are with Livingstone on this one; this is another blow for freedom of speech, and it's particularly absurd since the particular insult involved was pretty weak and really not very offensive. In fact, I struggle to see how it's offensive. It's not as if Livingstone was promoting being a Nazi prison guard; on the contrary.

Here's to Red Ken and more politicians like him. If even he could be forced to cave in by the hypersensitivities of political correctness then the Evening Standard will come even closer to ruling the country.

Tagged: Livingstone, Suspended, Nazi.