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BEDFORD ROAD: Now I do have to temper last nights comments because after some further reading I concluded that the Pope's lecture was more in line with previous remarks he made about the fundamental unsuitability of Turkey's membership in the EU.

Now whatever feelings you may harbour over that issue, and I for one am undecided, it is a remarkably different predjudice to the one he is currently being castigated for. And it is a view quite openly expressed by right wing types like Sarkozy, a possible cadidate in France's next presidential elections. Now if only the aggrieved types could direct some of their rage at him.