I wrote a piece a little while ago about Julian Assange – you can find it here – which amongst other things suggested that just because you consider someone a hero for one part of their lives doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily something other than a hero in another way. Events this week have reminded me of the other side of that coin: that just because someone might be seen as a villain in one way, doesn’t mean that everything about them is despicable. What’s more, if we believe in human rights, it doesn’t mean that ‘villains’ shouldn’t have those human rights. One particular such ‘villain’ has been in the news these last few days: Max Mosley.
Before I say anything more, I need to make it clear that my background is very left wing – I have grandparents, step-grandparents and great aunts who were communists. I myself had the…
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