Brian Cathcart in the New Statesman raises an eyebrow at Simon Heffer's item on Gary Glitter in his Daily Telegraph column: "Most rational people would find it quite acceptable if he were to be taken out and shot in the back of the head."
This prompts several thoughts, writes Cathcart, "just how many rational people does Heffer know? And, since when did right-wing British papers have such trust in the infallibility of justice in countries like Vietnam, where Glitter was tried and convicted?" He has a third thought too: "no matter how much the Telegraph comment pages try to be modern or intellectual... somehow they can't quite shake off the attitudes and tone of the officer's mess, circa 1937."
