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High life

Why doesn't Stephen Fry boycott the Saudis as well as the Russians? 

The Sochi Games are being held on the edge of a war zone with Muslim extremists, yet the media concentrate only on gay rights

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

Call me sentimental, but I’ve never seen a better opening ceremony than the Sochi one, evoking Russia’s great past in literature and in many other things. The ballet sequence was tops, especially the acrobatics by the black-clad dancer portraying the cruel officer in War and Peace who seduced Natasha. All those hysterics about boycotts and terrorism, they were just hypocritical sensationalism by those PC jerks that seem to be running our lives nowadays.

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