Heard Again

"It was as wrong to silence the voice of the aristocratic social conscience by abolishing hereditary barons as to silence the voice of organised labour by abolishing trade union barons. One way or another, both of those voices must be heard again."

So says my next book, out by the end of this month.

But after Hester and Goodwin, might that already be happening? Between a Labour Party once again run by and for the public sector trade unions, and a Conservative Party once again run by and for hereditary landowners, three decades of triumphalism on the part of the private sector bourgeoisie have been brought to a thoroughly ignominious end.

I say this, not necessarily because it is good or bad (rescinding Goodwin's knighthood had absolutely nothing to do with wealth distribution, or with public service delivery, or with peace), but because it is important.