Nelson Mandela: Tributes Pour In

Fagburn would love to read some cuttings to see how the Dail Mail covered Nelson Mandela and the ANC during the apartheid years.
I get the feeling they weren't quite so gushing and respectful back then...

PS Cecil Williams, the gay English theatre director, arrested with Mandela in 1962.

PPS Conservatives branded hyporcites for heaping praise on Nelson Mandela - the man they branded a terrorist - Mirror

And finally...

I wonder if it was like this two thousand years ago. If it was, when Jesus died, Pontius Pilate would have appeared on Sky News moments after the cross was taken down and said “The world mourns today a man of great integrity. It was an honour to have known him, and even when I sentenced him to crucifixion, he showed great forgiveness, and that shows what a great figure he was.”

On the BBC the newsreader would say “With me here is one of his closest associates. Judas, what memories do you have of Jesus?”

And Judas would say he always displayed dignity and humility, and most importantly forgave those that betrayed him, and finish with an amusing anecdote, about how pernickety he could be about which bread to break at supper...

Mark Steel, Tributes Have Flooded In...