GERMAN LEFT NOSTALGIC FOR COMMUNIST TYRANNY: “A group of leftwing politicians in Germany have been criticised for refusing to observe a minute’s silence on Saturday to commemorate the 136-plus people who died trying to breach the Berlin Wall. A far-left newspaper added to the controversy by printing a front page saying ‘thank you’ to the wall for ’28 years of keeping the peace in Europe’ and ’28 years of plentiful crèche and kindergarten places’.”

Nostalgia for communism is morally equivalent to nostalgia for Nazism, and the nostalgists should be treated the same way.