K1: Patrick Doyle’s Palsied Apologia, By Bamidele Johnson

Patrick Doyle, a broadcaster and some grade of celebrity, hit the back of the net in his defence of K1’s tarmac tantrum. Unfortunately, it was an own goal.   In a Facebook post sighted via Yabaleft Online, the broadcaster claimed that the airline staff baited K1 into misbehaving. He reached into his own experience, describing how had been similarly treated by service personnel but heroically resisted the urge to detonate. That, ironically, is where his argument crashes into itself. What Doyle offered in that post was no defence of K1,…

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