Sentence examples for when I criticised from inspiring English sources

"When I criticised our immigration policy, they labelled me a racist.

Fashion has an undeserved reputation for all kinds of faults – sexism, elitism, chauvinism (I was once accused of the last of these when I criticised Italian design; they evidently hadn't read what I'd written about London that season).

A few years back when I criticised the Dilnot commission for failing to consider as one of its options funding social care from general taxation, one of its members said that I must believe in Santa Claus.

Accused of hypocrisy in attacking others' wartime records, he objects: "When I criticised [Kurt Georg] Kiesinger because he wanted to be chancellor, I was talking about a man who... during the Nazi-era, had a leading position in the propaganda department.

(For some reason, the name Karen Armstrong springs to mind)." Thompson and I quarrelled, terminally, when I criticised him for reprinting without checking another Spencer-linked story about a mob of Muslims closing down a hospital in Sydney, which turned out to originate from the imagination of a neo-fascist group there.

When I criticised him, it was nothing personal.

"When I criticise Islam, it isn't in that tenor".

I hate neither myself nor Israel when I criticise the policies of the state.

And criticising the government of South Africa, which is pretty unpleasant and corrupt, doesn't make me a racist, and it doesn't make me antisemitic when I criticise the brutal mistreatment by the Israeli government.

But when I criticise a Conservative government for exactly the same power grab, the right of the party attacks with one voice – and a very personalised attack at that.

When I criticise naïve federalism, it is not in fact federalism itself that I am criticising; quite the opposite.