Imagine

John Lennon was a proto-neocon, all right. What now passes for conservatism in America and in the corners of Fleet Street that seem oblivious to any specifically British political tradition defines everything that he stood for (including those principles' economic entrenchment in the 1980s, which he did not live to see but of which it seems that he would have approved) as "the West", and is determined to "defend" it by using the force of arms to conform the whole world to it. Utopian delirium such as the author of Imagine could never have imagined in his wildest nights.