SATANIC VERSES
In a letter to Standpoint, published in the latest issue of the magazine, Nigel Lawson reveals the Cabinet's unanimous support for Special Branch protection of Salman Rushdie when, in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini,
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'A disciple of Terry Eagleton objects to a culture of "dead white men". Would she sneer at a culture of "dead black men"?'
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Satanic Verses
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