Que hombres y mujeres compitan juntos

Dominic Lawson escribe en el dominical conservador The Sunday Times acerca de las exigencias de que la corredora sudafricana Caster Semenya se sometiera a una prueba de sexo en el Mundial de Atletismo celebrado en Berlín: "Éstas serían extremadamente angustiosas para la atleta, especialmente porque bien podrían revelar que, a pesar de la ausencia de cualquier genital masculino visible, Semenya es genéticamente un hombre. ... Por el bien de la diplomacia y el juego limpio, dejad que esta columna ofrezca una solución a las embarazosas dificultades ..., una acción que cortará el nudo gordiano de la identidad sexual ambigua. Que no haya campeonatos masculinos o femeninos, divididos con toda la rigidez de las antiguas leyes del apartheid de Sudáfrica. En vez de eso, que hombres y mujeres -y todos los situados en medio de manera anómala e incómoda- compitan unos contra otros en un único campeonato. No habría necesidad de pruebas genéticas poco dignas y angustiosas -sólo los tramposos que tome drogas para alterar su cuerpo tendrán que temer a los hombres de bata blanca."

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Robert Mugabe unsettles the EU

The columnist Dominic Lawson is not convinced that Gordon Brown's refusal to attend the EU-Africa summit will be very effective. "Like most (if not all) sanctions, this has the effect of making us feel slightly more virtuous while doing nothing to end the oppression it is notionally designed to deter. I would imagine that Robert Mugabe would be delighted if his presence in Lisbon turns out to be the cause of Britain's absence from the table; and if Portugal should rescind its invitation, does anyone seriously imagine that this would do anything to put a single extra gram of maize into the mouths of Zimbabwe's children – or accelerate by one second the ending of Mugabe's rule? ... The view that it was sanctions that brought an end to white apartheid rule in South Africa is a common misconception."

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Salman Rushdie at the heart of a new controversy

Dominic Lawson considers Salman Rushdie's recent knighthood in the light of some of its more infamous recipients, like Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe. Rushdie's title isn't as disgraceful as some make out. "Only two years ago Iqbal Sacranie, the former chairman of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, was awarded a knighthood. This is the same Iqbal Sacranie who, when the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa on Rushdie, announced that 'death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him'. There were, shamefully, no expressions of outrage when the contemptible Mr Sacranie was made 'Sir Iqbal'. On Tuesday night I attended Salman Rushdie's 60th birthday party. There were a number of congratulatory speeches - but while all mentioned his age, none referred to his knighthood. Perhaps that is not so surprising. For a man who had been sentenced to death in the name of an entire religion, to have reached the age of 60 at all is a much greater achievement than any bauble."

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Poland's Rip Van Winkle is delighted with a post-communist world

"It isn't just doctors who should be queuing up to talk to Jan Grebski, a 65-year-old who suddenly and inexplicably emerged from a 19-year-long coma. Economists and political scientists should also pay a visit to the ex-railway worker's home in Dzialdowo, northern Poland", considers the commentator Nigel Lawson. "Mr Grebski fell into his coma after being hit by a train in 1988, the year before the fall of Communist rule. Last weekend he told Polish television that 'when I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere. Now there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin.' According to his wife, Gertruda, 'Jan was so amazed to see the colourful streets. He says the world is prettier now.'"

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Loach film puts class war above historical truth

"A hard-line Marxist distortion of history," runs the headline above a thought piece by columnist Dominic Lawson about this year's Golden Palm winner at Cannes - Ken Loach's 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' - about the Irish independence fight in the 1920's. "It is true that some among the British military did unspeakable things in Ireland, just as it is true that some American soldiers have committed atrocities in Iraq. But the important thing to realise about Ken Loach is that almost everything he has ever done as an artist ... is designed to further the overthrow of the capitalist system. ... In Loach's socialist realism, the IRA represent the victims of class struggle and are therefore all heroes, while the British soldiers represent the ruling elite and are therefore all brutes. Real history is much more complicated - and much more interesting."

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