The price of a vote

David Aaronovitch:

How many deaths is the right to vote actually worth? None? A thousand? Or the right of women to education? Or the right to speak out? If the answer is “not many”, then let’s get cosy with the murderers . . . try to edge them towards civilised behaviour. Let’s agree that the process of arguing for the freedom of others, let alone acting on it, is likely to be counter-productive. But please let us not commit the hypocrisy of voicing support for the work of Amnesty International or expressing shock at the killing of Anna Politkovskaya. Eggs break