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Bush’s team was castigated for injecting race into the emotionally charged issue of crime.

In recent months, Chinese public figures and companies have also been castigated for being insufficiently patriotic.

The same prime minister, characterised as being too cautious by one US president, was then castigated as being too aggressive by his successor.

On Saturday, before Nasrallah’s death was confirmed by Hezbollah, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a statement castigating Israel for “the massacre of the defenseless people of Lebanon.”

A party leader not castigating the government from the sidelines but describing what the government - a Labour government - will actually do.