THE case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortionist convicted of three charges of first degree murder in America, has brought home to some people a few of the ­realities of abortion, which is now a ­global holocaust promoted pre-eminently by the same government whose laws incongruously condemned Gosnell.

AMONG the ragtag-and-bobtail of Jurassic socialists, fading Blair babes and public-teat sucklings that calls itself “Civic Scotland” it has long been an article of faith that Britain’s nuclear deterrent is “immoral” and the fact that it desecrates Scottish soil is “obscene”.

‘ENLIGHTENMENT values” is becoming the fashionable rallying cry for the zealots who espouse the “progressive” cause; from Will Hutton, who numbers “climate-change deniers” among contemporary enemies of the so-called Enlightenment, to the inevitable Richard Dawkins, an eclectic congregation of comic singers is invoking this mantra.

DUBYA’S stock is rising: it might be premature to call it a bull market, but George W Bush is recovering his popularity and esteem to a degree that his notorious comrade-in-arms Tony Blair will never achieve.