If the Callinicos Scandal evolves in the wrong way, it will signal the triumph of an ideological system that dismisses the whole concept of the Rule of Law as a patriarchal and racial construct. That is to say, a weapon in the hands of the oppressors.

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...