Still The Bush Telegraph

Michael Weiss’s appalling effort can be read in full here.

“The Washington Post reported this week that the US State Department has blacklisted Russian officials implicated in the death of Moscow attorney Sergei Magnitsky, the enterprising young Moscow attorney who exposed a $230 million state-perpetrated tax fraud”

Implicated how and by whom? And this is America’s business how, exactly?

“tortured”

How, exactly? And by whom, exactly?

“Senator Ben Cardin”

Who should know better.

“Putin’s ideologist-in-chief”

What does that mean?

“Despite a few treaties on nuclear arms reduction”

Obviously a trivial matter. Tell that to Ronald Reagan, whom Weiss’s neocon godfathers used to compare to Neville Chamberlain while he was still alive and in office.

“We still don’t agree on what to do about Iran”

“We”? Aren’t you supposed to be British? And your political tendency might not agree with Russia on “what to do about Iran”, but everyone else in the world does.

“Russia threatens to veto any UN Security Council resolution on Syria”

Thereby saving the ancient indigenous Christians from the fate of the ones in Iraq and Palestine.

“Anti-Americanism remains the prevailing mood in the Kremlin”

If this article is anything to go by, then I’m not surprised.

“The large but disorganised anti-Putin opposition movement in Russia is routinely blamed on the CIA and the State Department”

Imagine!

“Colour Revolutions that swept Ukraine and Georgia”

“Revolutions”? “Swept”? Dream on. Notable that you only list those two, arguably the least unsuccessful, though certainly no more than that.

“78 per cent of the Russian elite have a KGB background”

And the background of the British and American elites is what, exactly?

“Consider the All-Russia People’s Front, a Kremlin-concocted “grassroots” organisation that adores United Russia, the ruling party, and yet which registers signatories at the speed of quantum mechanics”

Can’t imagine why...

“In a single day, 39,000 employees of the Siberian Business Union joined, no doubt without many of them even being aware of the Front’s existence”

No doubt...

“I registered as a Muscovite housewife called Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”

That’s Telegraph journalism now, is it? And you neocons could do with reading Solzhenitsyn.

“Cold War-style paranoia”

Rich beyond Croesus.

“The Washington Times”

Now we really have found the level.

This post is a disgrace, but only too typical of Britain’s supposedly conservative and Tory media, which, like the party that they support and like the faction that they favour in the other party, are consistently more loyal to America and Israel than to their own country, a situation which exists in no comparable country, and possibly in no other country on earth.

Where is Peter Oborne? Peter Hitchens, Stephen Glover, Peter McKay and Andrew Alexander may be signed up elsewhere. But has the Telegraph never heard of Geoffrey Wheatcroft, or Stuart Reid, or John Laughland, or Freddy Gray, or Anthony Daniels/Theodore Dalrymple, to name but a few? The crowd around The American Conservative, and perhaps especially around its Post-Right blog currently in abeyance while it pursues other projects, would also serve as a very useful antidote to the sort of “Sarah Palin for President/George Bush was the greatest and most conservative President ever” drivel that appears both below and above the line. Email addresses available from davidaslindsay@hotmail.com.

All those listed as already signed up by someone else have specifically been signed up by the Mail newspapers, which not only are, but always have been, British-owned, in contrast to the rootless cosmopolitanism of Rupert Murdoch and Conrad Black, whose view of America is the same as that of those who have thence transferred their former affection for the Soviet Union. Not for them Russia’s pre-eminence among the Slavs as the gatekeepers of a civilisation defined precisely by the Classical-Biblical synthesis in Jesus Christ and His Church. The similar historic role of France is also nothing to them, except something against which to define themselves.

The only viable opposition to Putin and Medvedev is the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation, although the neocons and the BBC are also very fond of the Islamist terrorists in Chechnya, and also of the National Bolsheviks, with their Nazi flag apart from the black hammer and sickle in place of the swastika. As during the Soviet period, Russian “dissidents” are routinely deeply unpleasant in themselves and are frequently guilty of offences such as would lead to imprisonment or more in any jurisdiction in the world. It is a generation since Edward Norman pointed that out. But he is hardly on any neocon reading list.

If anyone were good for the readies, then I have every confidence that a site similar in format to Telegraph Blogs or to Harry’s Place, but giving a platform both to proper Tories and to those in the patriotic, socially conservative tradition of the real British Left, could be up and running within a working week.