If you find the title of this post offensive, then so you should. But what else is one supposed to say? The whole thing is as ridiculous as it is revolting. For one thing, why is it on 27th January, the day Auschwitz exchanged mass-murdering Nazi tyranny for mass-murdering Soviet tyranny? Why not 15th April, the day Belsen really was liberated, and that by the British? In some years, that would even coincide usefully with Easter.
That we are prepared to have it today points to the extent to which the anti-British sectarian Left has taken over our public life, and the extent to which it has made peace with its old adversaries, also massively influential, on the anti-British sectarian Right. That we insist on having it all points to the extent to which it is so much easier, and even to which it is so much more fun, to concentrate on the wrongdoing of others rather than on the wrongdoing of ourselves.
As you might know, this blog's readership is small but significant. You have a considerable following among the ladies and gentlemen of Her Majesty's Press. We sometimes speculate as to whose heir you are. Most people say Alan Watkins, but based on this he must have mated with Auberon Waugh.
ReplyDeleteGosh.
ReplyDeleteYou would have liked them and they would have liked you. Same goes for Bron's great mate Paul Foot, and for his Peter Simple predecessor Michael Wharton. You have touches of all of them, and I cannot really think of anyone else your age like that. If we could only get you into the "MSM", then all would not be lost. But why would you want it?
ReplyDeleteOnce again, gosh.
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to have read all four of Watkins, Waugh, Foot and Wharton/Simple on the Coalition.
Now, on topic, please.
What's holding up the book? Seriously, people are eagerly talking about it, but where is it?
ReplyDeleteWhich one? The first two are now out of my hands, the third one is shaping up nicely (I am only editing it), and the fourth one is still only a draft on a piece of A4.
ReplyDeleteWot no Armenian genocide?
ReplyDeleteBut we want Turkey in the EU, don't we?
That, and because the Armenians in Palestine and Lebanon are on the sides that we do not back, while those in Iran enjoy reserved parliamentary representation of which we must not speak.
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