On Jan 23, 2012, at 5:15 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> I agree. It is shocking. As if it was 1865, not 2012. On the news that Lincoln had been assassinated, the Manchester Guardian said ‘of his rule, we can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent to every true notion of constitutional right and human liberty’ (27 April 1865).
Manchester liberalism lives!