Sorry Keith, you are a strange chap. That's as far as I'll go here, but honestly, have you even read the article?

"That he's a "distinguished surgeon" is irrelevant, he's a person and should be treated equally, not afforded privileges of social rank, it isn't the C18th". you state

Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta is a highly respected reconstructive surgeon who continued to work heroically and tirelessly in Al Shifa hospital, carrying out operation after operation, mostly on women and children, as the hospital was shelled, strafed and machine gunned around him.

He was already a surgeon of great distinction, based in Glasgow where he is now Rector of Glasgow University.

HIs status as a highly regarded surgeon is totally relevant to this article, the treatment he has received in Germany, France and the Netherlands, and the arguments Murray is making. The doctor is an expert witness and should be heard, the problem is that he has been refused the right to testify n a public forum - Germany gained a lot of expertise doing this in the nineteen thirties, but Grance and Holland? .I literally cannot understand your ridiculous nit-picking here and you can't be bothered to make any comment on the article otherwise?

PS Glasgow University is my Alma Mata. Previous rectors have included Winnie Mandela (before her disgrace), Esward Snowdon, Mordechai Vanunu, Albert Luthuli. The fact is that Dr Sitta is not just an "ordinary person"

Some people deserve praise because of their standing, skills, morals, worth, intelligence, contribution, Dr Sitta is one, and to suggest Murray is guilty of unreasonable deference to some sort of 18th Century "privilege of social rank" is just laughable. Indeed, you are a very strange man, Keith, but I think I've said that before. Quite often.

Honestly........