As a proud and historic nation, and the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Britain has been responsible for the invention of innumerable wonders of note down the years. Amongst the many fine products to have first been born on these islands are the steam and jet engines, the lightbulb, the programmable computer, the television… and, of course, homophobia, too.
That is the rather strange opinion of Diarmaid McCulloch, Emeritus Professor of Oikophobia at Oxford University, about whom a headline from the Telegraph was featured in the Daily Sceptic’s round-up of possible April Fool’s stories last week, to wit: ‘British Empire taught Muslims homophobia, claims historian’. Amazingly, this was one of the stories in our list which wasn’t fake – at least, not intentionally so.
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