Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday 30 June 2011
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.
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