I have an article on the homepage this morning about Britain’s refusal to allow Geert Wilders into the country notwithstanding the Herculean efforts it has made to bring actual terrorists held at Gitmo into the country — even if they’re not Britons.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is the official who refused to permit Wilders to enter England. Relatedly, she is on a crusade to rename Islamic terrorism “un-Islamic activity” (reminiscent of our own government’s ill-conceived effort to purge references to the link between Islamic doctrine and jihadist terror). Andrew has beaten me to the punch on this, but note that last year Smith issued a visa to allow a top Hezbollah spokesman, Ibrahim Moussawi, into the U.K. so he could tour the country and headline such events as the one sponsored by the “Stop the War Coalition” in London. Moussawi used to be the foreign and political editor of al-Manar, Hezbollah’s television station (which has been banned in the U.S. and elsewhere, largely thanks to the efforts of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies).

How sad to find the Tories equating Wilders with Hezbollah — the reporter with the murderer. In the end, Tories are not opposed to Labour’s totalitarian standard — namely, the regime may ban any provocative speech that might disturb what is farcically called “community harmony.” They just want it applied even-handedly. Sheesh. We worry that England may be going, but maybe it’s already gone.