The Times is warned that Michael Gove's article about the anti-Zionist carol concert at St. James's Picadilly is 'potentially libellous'

Further to my previous blog on that carol concert at St. James's Piccadilly in London, in which I refer to an article on the subject by Michael Gove MP:

http://irenelancaster.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/that-pathetic-carol-concert-schoolboy-meschugass-or-the-slippery-road-to-auschwitz.html

The Times has now blogged on it themselves.

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/12/lightning-rod-f.html

The most frightening aspect of this whole affair is that the organisers of the concert, not totally agreeing with Michael Gove MP's article, which attacked the service as a 'festival of anti-Semitism', and the church for indulging in 'collaboration', have deemed it 'potentially libellous' and warned both the the paper itself and Ruth Gledhill, their religion correspondent, not to fall into the same 'traps' in an article she is writing for tomorrow's paper.

Michael's exact words are:

... I am speechless at a church's collaboration with this festival of anti-Semitism

The scary, and indeed dangerous, reaction to the  words of the most intelligent MP on either side of the House of Commons might be considered by some to constitute proof - if any were needed - that the fascist mentality is not dead and buried; neither is it simply inherent in some Far Right parties, but is alive and kicking all over the place and can appear where one might least expect to find it!