Invite and insult

摘要

It wasn't hard to distinguish the men of the right-wing British National Party (bnp) from the members of the Oxford Union debating society on November 26th. The students who came to hear Nick Griffin, the bnp's leader, speak alongside the Nazi apologist David Irving were mostly fey public-schoolboy types with plummy voices and the odd corduroy jacket, plus some fashionable young women. The bnp goons, for their part, wore standard-issue crypto-fascist leather coats and unnecessary black ski hats, except for one who sported a neo-tsarist beard.