Oh dear. I really should have checked with Mark before putting his remark

in my column. I am sorry; that is a real breach of etiquette, and I shall

be much more scrupulous in future. I hope it is clear at least, from my use

of the word “horrible,” that the Armenian massacres are not something I take

lightly. They were indeed… horrible.

The cult of victimology — the endless obsessive picking at old grievances

in pursuit of moral advantage — is such a tempting target, we sometimes put

the *real* horrors on which those grievances are based at the back of our

minds when lampooning it.