Letter: Best of enemies

THERE’S nothing so depressingly predictable as the astuteness of one’s own cynicism, especially watching those you suspected of venting their self-righteous indignation for their own aggrandisement more than principle.

At my old school there was one forever ramming hers down everyone’s throats, as teenage pseudo-intellectuals are wont to do, in particular her belief in animal rights.

Yes, veganism, ban vivisection, the works. Much as most of us thought her shallower than a gnat’s paddling pool, it still came as an enormous shock when, upon university graduation, her first job turned out to be with Inveresk – Europe’s animal Auschwitz – where thousands of small cute furry creatures die after being used in a manner you’d not wish on your worst enemy, largely on utterly pointless experiments.

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I got that same sense of shock reading that Aamer Anwar had been fired by Tommy Sheridan after the latter discovered Anwar was writing a column for the Sun newspaper (your report, 4 April).

Not merely because I thought surely that newspaper couldn’t dumb itself down any more, nor that they’re employing someone who tried his damndest during his student days at Glasgow University trying to have Murdoch’s papers banned from campus for being “racist”, but the wonder that must be on everyone’s minds now as to whether Sheridan’s disastrous court battle strategy with News International may have been down to having a turncoat in his camp all along.

No shock, however, on Anwar junking three decades of rhetoric to become Murdoch’s pet Toytown revolutionary.

The late Phil Gallie warned Sheridan publicly to choose his friends more carefully.

He knows now what he means at this final betrayal and humiliation.

Mark Boyle

Linn Park Gardens

Johnstone

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