Opinion: Nothing stirs up a mob like a straw man

Updated September 21 2017 - 10:17am, first published 10:16am
Outrage?: Among 17,000 clicking “likes” on the image on Facebook, there were just two criticising it, while everyone else was overwhelmingly positive.
Outrage?: Among 17,000 clicking “likes” on the image on Facebook, there were just two criticising it, while everyone else was overwhelmingly positive.

There they are! Fie through the battle's roar, the acrid smoke of the cannons' blasts, spy, I say, the filthy straw men of the ghost battalions coming this way! 

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