Across The Pond, But Not Across The Waves

Or is it the other way round?

Some of my many American readers were on here yesterday, pointing out that reviving a mass market paleo-Labour newspaper, or doing anything else like that such as setting up a think tank or what have you, was practically impossible in Britain but relatively easy in the United States. Look at the whole parallel institutional life that traditionalists and paleoconservatives have set up, they said.

Well, only up to a point. As America approaches the elections for President, a third of Senators, the entire House of Representatives, and much else besides, MSNBC is no longer using Pat Buchanan, and Fox has cancelled Judge Napolitano's programme altogether.

With a strongly realist article against war in Syria appearing even in this week's Spectator, and with Peter Mullen posting his doubts about it even on today's Telegraph Blogs, I might even go so far as to say that the Old Right was starting to look more welcome at the table in the Old Country, where in any case its position makes far more historical and constitutional sense, and where (this is also important in Theology and elsewhere) academic institutions are neither ideologically committed as a founding principle, nor dependent either on private donations or on parental payment of fees.