Pot Calling Kettle …?
The Dean of Durham has recently written an open letter to the new Italian manager of Sunderland Football Club, Paolo Di Canio, calling on him to renounce Fascism publicly or risk being associated with “toxic far-right tendencies”. An open letter of this sort, irrespective of how diplomatically worded, is of course a thinly veiled attack upon the recipient, suggesting as it does that someone expressing admiration for Benito Mussolini is by definition unfit to hold the…