What Father Ted could teach Radovan Karadzic  Father Ted
understood the difference between dreams and reality. It's a
pity the former Bosnian Serb leader doesn't  I know it's not
seemly. But I can't be the only person in Britain who is finding
it difficult to take Radovan Karadzic's war-crimes trial at the
Hague quite seriously enough. The trouble is that the defendant
looks so exactly like Father Ted Crilly would look now, had his
avatar, Dermot Morgan, not gone and got himself dead at the age
of 45. If only, I keep thinking as I listen to Karadzic's comic
excuses about holy war, he'd heeded Father Ted's own advice, as
explained in one vintage episode to Ardal O'Hanlon's Father
Dougal. Drawing a crude head shape, Ted explained that the
things that went on inside the line were "dreams", while the
stuff that went on outside it was "reality". Of course, when the
reality is unspeakable genocide, the dreams of moral rectitude
must be especially soothing. But you can't help musing, all the
same, on how Karadzic an