A standard charge against the EU promoting democracy is that the union itself is not democratic – hence Brussels is at best hypocritical.
It's hypocritical to stop selling GTAV while still selling NERF guns, unless video games are more likely to result in real-world behavioural changes than real-world games.
I call that hypocritical," she told MPs. "When I wrote a critical judgment of their actions on my blog, they harassed my blog site host with midnight emails from lawyers in New York, France and London, forcing my host to close down my blog for a few hours.
The sanctions were widely perceived as a failure – and hypocritical to start with: how could a country like France, which has its own National Front, lecture other countries on stamping out xenophobia?
"It is hypocritical for western governments, who have funded their industrialisation using fossil fuels … to say to African countries: 'You cannot develop dams, you cannot develop coal, just rely on these very expensive renewables,'" he says.
He believed that anti-grouse-shoot campaigners were driven by a hypocritical distaste for those who take pleasure in killing wild birds.
He is golden-haired, golden-tongued and charismatic but he cannot avoid his own hypocritical impulses.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.46pm BSTurkey Turkey's flawed stance towards Syria The Turkish government's increasingly aggressive policy towards Syria is hypocritical and out of step with anti-war opinion in Turkey, argues Hugh Pope from the International Crisis Group.
But it would be hypocritical for the media to condemn him for it.
And hypocritical when we all know that he lives in a palace made of gold in Notting Hill.
If the government's message is that peaceful independent Muslim political activism is beyond the pale, it won't just be regarded as hypocritical and undemocratic – it will strengthen the hand of those committed to violence.
