Tuesday 21 February 2012

Buy My Book


This book reclaims the traditions of patriotism and social conservatism on the British and wider Left. It challenges the standard accounts of Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill. It reassesses the importance of Jacobitism in British and American political history. It makes the conservative and Tory cases against nuclear weapons and Post Office privatisation. It proposes a domestic policy programme formed and informed by the foregoing. It sets out comprehensive re-examinations of the Irish Question; of Islam, Judaism and the Middle East; and of the nature of the American Republic and British relations with it. And it defends the Catholic Church against fashionable attacks.

“David Lindsay has generated a brilliant reconciliation of the conflicting strains of the Labour Tradition and is worthy of the closest attention.” Dr Maurice Glasman, Lord Glasman of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill; Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Director of the Faith and Citizenship Programme, London Metropolitan University; founder of Blue Labour.

“This book is well researched, is full of facts and deals with contemporary and historical political and social issues. It comes from the left but it should also appeal to those who are concerned with and interested in the great issues and how they are dealt with by our political and other institutions. It is well worth reading.” David Stoddart, Lord Stoddart of Swindon; Labour MP for Swindon, 1970-1983; Government Whip, 1975-1978.

“Current orthodoxy – both in economic policy and right across the board – has so manifestly failed us that we desperately need some fresh thinking and a different way of looking at our problems. That is precisely what David Lindsay provides in this stimulating book.” Professor Bryan Gould, Labour MP for Southampton Test, 1974-1979; Labour MP for Dagenham, 1983-1994; Shadow Cabinet Member, 1986-1994; Leadership Candidate, 1992.

“Before Red Tory and Blue Labour there was David Lindsay. He was arguably the first to announce a postliberal politics of paradox, and to delve into the deep, unwritten British past in order to craft, theoretically, an alternative British and international future. It is high time that the singular and yet wholly pertinent writings of this County Durham Catholic Labour prophet receive a wider circulation.” Professor John Milbank, Professor in Religion, Politics and Ethics, University of Nottingham.

“Parliamentary democracy was not invented in 1689. Banking was established by the Venetians, not the Dutch. Much in our history and development owes much to complex ideas and traditions, especially to Jacobitism. David Lindsay’s highly original book explains why and how.” Dr Eveline Cruickshanks, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London; Chairman of the Jacobite Studies Trust.

“David Lindsay has written a provocative, informed, and idiosyncratic work that will intrigue those interested in the intersection of Christian social thought, populism, and Anglo-American politics.” Mark Stricherz, author of Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party.

“An excellent College Tutor here at Collingwood.” Professor Joe Elliott AcSS, Principal of Collingwood College, Durham.

17 comments:

  1. I see that your embittered ex-tutee is back.

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  2. Since he seems to have missed it, it says “Ships within 3-5 business days.” Reviewing a book before he can have read it, since it was only published in the depths of last night? That is low quality journalism even for him or his Darth Mor, who becomes terribly touchy whenever I point out quite how poor a hack he is.

    Note well, dear reader: that last comment over on this book’s page is based on never having read the book itself, and on being too stupid to realise that we would all be able to tell. Those who watch the watchmen of Fleet Street certainly have their eye on this one for future reference. I have made sure of that.

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  3. Displaying his multiple personalities so as to spew his narcotic and psychotic bilge, he really does believe that he is bigger and more important than Lord Glasman, Lord Stoddart, Bryan Gould, John Milbank, Eveline Cruickshanks, Mark Stricherz and Joe Elliott all put together. Apart from Joe Elliott, he has never heard of anyone, so they cannot be anyone important, can they? They are, but even if they were not, how can he be allowed to traduce in this way a book and author endorsed by his own Head of House?

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  4. Now, that is a very good question. A very good question indeed.

    But can we not talk about him, please? It is not as if he is intelligent, interesting or important.

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  5. Not compared with all of Lord Glasman, Lord Stoddart, Bryan Gould, John Milbank, Eveline Cruickshanks, Mark Stricherz and Joe Elliott, no. Not compared with any of them. This campaign of criminal harassment by Oliver Kamm’s little helper continues even as Murdoch Towers collapses around the pair of them. It is quite touching, really.

    My personal favourite is the insistence that you are not and have never been a tutor even though, you know, *the Principal* says you are, that weird nonstory in Palatinate was only ever in it because you were, and the man who put it in so that he could curry favour with Kamm was ONE OF YOUR TUTEES.

    That sometimes gets watered down to you not being an academic, but the university directory (which calls you “Academic/management staff”), your much used academic staff library card, the last book, the absolutely top drawer academic preface to it, the star-studded endorsements of this book, and doubtless this book’s formidable contents all beg to differ on that score.

    The book is on order, naturally.

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  6. First, we had "Radical Orthodoxy; the connections between the Hebraic and the Hellenic traditions; the fallacy of both liberal and reactionary assumptions concerning the Second Vatican Council; Catholicism as, and as more than, Evangelical, Charismatic and liberal; Catholic imaginative writing, and anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus, in Tudor and Stuart England; Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton (including Dickens), Greene and Waugh; a Catholic defence of the English Confessional State; the more recent works of Dr Edward Norman; Anglo-Catholicism; and Opus Dei."

    Now, we have the traditions of patriotism and social conservatism on the British and wider Left; challenges to the standard accounts of Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill; the importance of Jacobitism in British and American political history; the conservative and Tory cases against nuclear weapons and Post Office privatisation; "a domestic policy programme formed and informed by the foregoing"; comprehensive re-examinations of Ireland, the Middle East, and Anglo-American relations (you're nothing if not brave); and a defence of the Catholic Church from "fashionable attacks" that I think we can all identify.

    Bloody hell. Sorry, but bloody hell. You are a very great man, Mr Lindsay, a very great man indeed.

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  7. He has the wow factor all right. The range, the depth, the self-belief. Wow. Consistently underused, mind. A very great man has been kept down over and over again.

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  8. Bollocks to that, Tom. Kammo or Harry's Place should do a proper demolition job on Lindsay's list of endorsements, the man who has revived National Socialism in the East End, the man who sat on the board of the Freedom Association while a Labour peer and was only expelled when he told people to vote Ukip, the man who lost the Labour leadership by nine to one and went on to resign over Maastricht before emigrating to New Zealand, the godfather of Phillip Blond's Radical Orthodoxy with its crusade against secular Modernity, Britain's (definitely England's) only working Jacobite academic as such, the man who thinks the Democratic Party went wrong when it stopped being run by Catholic ethnic machine politicians in the North and Boss Hogg figures in the South, and the man who says dyslexia does not exist.

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  9. Please do not swear on my blog.

    And calling a Jew "the man who has revived National Socialism in the East End"? Classy, luv. Really classy.

    Good to see that the right raw nerves have been touched.

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  10. You're beat, TomTom. You're beat. Mr. L's dazzling list of endorsements confirms his place in the upper echelons. Skimming through the e-book, I am not surprised that he has published in the past on Edward Norman, he is a very similar figure but for the age after postmodernity.

    Blue Labour, Radical Orthodoxy, the revival of interest in Jacobitism, the re-emergence of economically populist but socially traditionalist Democrats, those are some of the marks of that present age. Those clinging to the 60s, the 80s and the Blair/Clinton/Dubya years; the New Left, the New Right, New Labour and the neocons: you are the people living hopelessly in the past.

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  11. What's going to be your next trick? There was talk of a collection of book reviews.

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  12. More than talk, let me assure you.

    By the end of the calendar year, with any luck.

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  13. So what happened to the preface by Rod Liddle?

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  14. He's too tied up with another project, a book of his own. But don't worry, he is still very much on board...

    As for the change of publication method, I just got sick of wiating, but don't ask me for what, or I might feel obliged to tell you.

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  15. The negative reviewers are all the same person, aren't they?

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  16. Oh, yes.

    But he is not worth talking about.

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  17. No offence to Rod, but with this line up, who needs him?

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