There's always one, isn't there...

... a Grauniadista nerd-wipe who decides to act like he's been oxygen-starved at birth.

• Probability of sun rising in morning = ~ 1
• Probability of stupid pinko lefty deciding that disliking the Bush administration must mean that Alexander Lukashenko is nice but misunderstood also = 1

In this Grauniad article, Mark Almond emerges from under a rotten log to proclaim that Belarus is an almost model society where:

the market is orientated towards serving the needs of the bulk of the population, not a tiny class of nouveaux riches and their western advisers and money launderers... officials are not getting richer as ordinary folk get poorer [and] where masses of ordinary people are getting on with life and getting a bit better off.

Let me explain this... very... slowly... The reason why Lukashenko inspires... loathing in the thinktanks and foreign ministries of the west is not because he has sav[ed] Belarus from mass unemployment. Or in the words of a commentator on this thread (see, the Grauniad ain't all bad):

Too many on the left need to reaquaint themselves with some basic principles. They could start with democracy = good; dictatorship = bad and take it from there.

Thanks to the LDYS forums for this prime contender for Traitor of the Week.