Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
A Long Way From Thatcherism
Margaret Thatcher thought that trains were for losers. But today, a Transport Secretary who probably regards her as his heroine admits that only the rich can any longer afford to use them.
It's interesting, but it could do with being more paleocon, as the Mail itself increasingly is.
Alex Brummer's conservative critique of global capitalism is welcome, as is the inclusion of Peter Hitchens's blog. But where is Peter Oborne, or the Mail's own Stephen Glover, Peter McKay and Andrew Alexander? Where is 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 have been a lot, lot, lot better than Nile Gardiner.
What do you think of the new RightMinds site edited by Simon Heffer for the Daily Mail?
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting, but it could do with being more paleocon, as the Mail itself increasingly is.
ReplyDeleteAlex Brummer's conservative critique of global capitalism is welcome, as is the inclusion of Peter Hitchens's blog. But where is Peter Oborne, or the Mail's own Stephen Glover, Peter McKay and Andrew Alexander? Where is 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 have been a lot, lot, lot better than Nile Gardiner.