Its people's shared detestation of Arab northerners will no longer be enough to bind them together.

ECONOMIST: South Sudan

And he has another object of detestation: any West European who lectures Turkey about human rights or anything else.

ECONOMIST: Bulent Ecevit, Turkey��s survivor

In the 1850s he came to favour the Piedmontese monarchy, but his detestation of the papacy continued, proving more enduring than his republicanism.

ECONOMIST: Garibaldi

Some hard-core Democrats have gone berserk in their detestation of Mr Bush: take a look at the websites accusing him of murdering Paul Wellstone.

ECONOMIST: Lexington