One of the best ideas yet: the Burmese monks for this year's Nobel Peace Prize

Three excellent postings by one of my favourite bloggers and former colleague, Norman Geras, Emeritus Professor of Government at Manchester University:

The sin of moral equivalence here:

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2007/10/impartial.html

and here:

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2007/10/a-shameful-soun.html

and a very good suggestion here:

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2007/10/a-symbol-of-con.html

I have blogged on the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony for Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma here:

http://irenelancaster.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/09/the-ghastly-bur.html

The Burmese monks would be worthy recipients of this honour, and I for one will be voting for them.