A High Court judge who stepped down after being disciplined for campaigning in favour of marriage said he would have been ”˜publicly hanged’ if he had spoken out again.
Sir Paul Coleridge launched a stinging attack against Lord Thomas, the country’s most senior judge, for rebuking him after he repeatedly spoke out about the harm that family breakdowns caused children.
He said the judiciary had been ”˜brought into disrepute’ by investigating him for backing a traditional view of marriage.
They may not be hanging people in the literal sense, but in the metaphorical sense the lynchings have begun.
Absolutely right, #1. It reminds me of the infamous public lynching of Robert Bork, back when President Reagan nominated him for the Supreme Court. The public vilification he had to endure was outrageous. It was so blatant and extreme that we now speak of the “Borking” of nominees to high positions (and not just to the High Court).
It’s sad to see the same ugly phenomenon taking place across the Pond, in a society that prides itself on being more moderate and restrained than we uncouth Americans. So Sir Paul Coleridge has been “Borked?”
Someday in the future, people are going to wonder what kind of collective insanity overcame so much of the Western world in our time.
David Handy+