Wednesday 16 March 2011
Just As Well That We Stayed Out Of Libya
Left to himself and without the steadying influence of the much-maligned William Hague, David Cameron would have taken us in on what now looks decidedly like the losing side. How, then, could we have continued to deal with the winning side, as we would surely have needed to do? You know, in the real world.
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The question is how you were ever writing for a site edited by a Mossad agent and written by almost nobody else. You are far more at home over at the American Conservative with other left-wingers like Jack Ross, and you deserve the bigger canvas of America instead of London neoconnery's parish noticeboard. All hail the Mossad Martyr, greatly revered.
ReplyDeleteActually, the man who recruited me to Post-Right is now back in London, as Deputy Editor of The Spectator. Paleoconservatism is quietly reasserting itself all over the place.
ReplyDeleteYou do realise that for you to put up a comment calling him a Mossad agent has probably put his life at risk? Of course you do. You ruined the career of another parish councillor with a high octane attempt to use the parliamentary standards commissioner, because he was then employed by an MP, to investigate him for conspiring to murder you after a conflagration with one of his relatives. Your idea of how to deal with impertinent student journalists was lucky not to result in a suicide or two. For taking away your Telegraph gig - NOT EVEN PAID! - you really would be happy to see a man die. But you are so sociable, scholarly and religious, aren't you?
ReplyDeleteBut yes, you do fit in with Pat Buchanan's TAC boys. They are convinced that their voice of Deep Southern or deepest Midwestern farming Lincoln-haters who advocate traditionalist Catholicism and Hamiltonian mercantilism is somehow the voice of Middle America. And you are convinced that your voice of County Durham coalfield Churchill-haters who advocate traditionalist Catholicism and a sort of Keynesian mercantilism with lots of nationalisation is somehow the voice of Middle Britain. The move of a man straight from an expatriate stint on TAC to the upper echelons of the Speccie, thence no doubt to regular appearences in the Telegraph and Mail papers, has not only been noticed by you. But the rest of us are not happy about it. We see it as a very sad sign of the times. Though not, thankfully, of the Times. Thank God for Rupert Murdoch.
If you know all of that, @19:33, then you will know that there is no suggestion that any of those involved was innocent. Mr Lindsay in one case, it could have been anyone (and he was in hospital at the time) in the other had been prepared to let it go but was pushed too far once too often.
ReplyDeleteEveryone concerned was fully aware of how ill he was and their persecution of him needs to be seen in that light. The same goes for That Man, I expect. Rubbed out for that? Some of us would see no problem, but David Lindsay would not take that view. Too nice for his own good sometimes.
In the case that cannot have had anything to do with him, he maintains that he has never seen the offending material and I believe him. Why would a man of his distinction read such rubbish? College's attitude is evident from the fact that he has since been elected unopposed as President of the Senior Common Room. Whereas we all know what has happened to those who wrote and published filth about him, even if he has never read it and even if he was physically incapable of taking the retaliatory action that one of him countless friends clearly felt appropriate.
Mr Lindsay will be about to tell us off for going off-topic, so I will bring it back on-topic by pointing out how angry and bitter you obviously are that the paleocon position is re-emerging within the right-wing press. Get used to it, because this post explains that it is also re-emerging at the very highest level of the Tory party and the Cabinet. Yes, some of those people know, like and respect David Lindsay. As do some of those re-emerging at or around the very highest level of the Labour party. Get used to that, too. Learn to respect your elders and betters. Or their friends will teach you to even if they themselves will not. But then, you already knew that.
That Man, as our dear brother Bernard calls him, would have to join the back of the queue to be taken care of by the fiercely protective friends of that most clubbable of scholar-saints, David Lindsay. At the front would be Traitor Boy, if he has not already been punished enough.
ReplyDeleteBut why should the great man care about any of them? His stock at Durham has never been higher and nor, for the reasons given in this post, has his stock politically. There, is that on topic?
More or less, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteSo you have managed one more Common Room presidency than Traitor Boy ever did, well done. Go on, admit it, nothing would give you greater pleasure than a hit on That Man. Except perhaps a hit on Traitor Boy, whose former organ now seems to have been taken over by your loyal lieutenants. Coincidence? When did you ever do coincidence?
ReplyDeleteBut I am determined to get this comment up. Thank you for your comments on Coffee House and elsewhere, and notice how we are all paleocons now apart from a few embittered Americans whose disbelief that there is a black President is matched only by their disbelief that anyone in Britain dares to question them or to mention as you did that our forces are safer without their "friendly fire".
Roll on a Commons vote.
ReplyDeleteEd Miliband, over to you.