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.
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Social Democracy: The Scottish Question and the Catholic Answer
As you have just tweeted to him, "Do you honestly think that I don't know them, or that they don't know me? I didn't have to pitch this. They invited me." You used to write for TAC's Post-Right blog but he obviously doesn't know that. The TAC boys all seem to be your friends on Facebook and your followers on Twitter but finding that out would have involved a little research.
Though I'm sure Catholic social teaching doesn't just involve distributism; it's proponents say it must also involve Catholic social policies on issues like the family and abortion.
And we obviously don't have any "labour movement" or Parliamentary party advocating that in Britain.
They just want the money. Without the responsibility.
He is a wingman for Ed Miliband. Your main journalistic contact in the world, seemingly the only place you can get paid work, is a magazine founded by Pat Buchanan and Taki and staffed by your Buchananite mates. But you are the great hope of the left and he is an infiltrator. Yeah, right.
Well done on getting in there. A good magazine.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I know them well. They are deeply sound.
DeleteI see that your stalker has turned up in the comments.
ReplyDeleteYes, plugging my books when he is not plugging this site. I shall raise a glass to him out of my fee.
DeleteAs you have just tweeted to him, "Do you honestly think that I don't know them, or that they don't know me? I didn't have to pitch this. They invited me." You used to write for TAC's Post-Right blog but he obviously doesn't know that. The TAC boys all seem to be your friends on Facebook and your followers on Twitter but finding that out would have involved a little research.
DeleteWith his "silly little boy" comment to @LanchesterLad on twitter, David Lindsay has become as camp as me.
DeleteNot when it is purely descriptive.
DeleteI know, I saw that. Ed was in more danger from that irreconcilable old Blairite than from anyone else.
ReplyDeleteStill, at least he has made his red-top début fully clothed. Let us be grateful for that small mercy.
I did have to laugh at the "social democracy" comment at the end. Know your audience, for heavens sakes. This isn't the Guardian.
ReplyDeleteIt's a conservative readership who believe in personal responsibility not "I want government to do everything for me".
"Know your audience," indeed, dear boy.
DeleteAs you yourself might put it, Mr. L, bless. As you have put it on Twitter this afternoon, you are "practically family" to the American Conservative.
DeleteTo quote one of TAC's and its Editor's several tweets linking to my piece, "Social democracy is the only thing preventing the breakup of Britain".
DeleteThat is the editorial line of the paleocon house journal. Well, of course it is. Know your audience, indeed.
The Boston basketball team are "seltics" as well.
ReplyDeleteYes, so people have been telling me today.
DeleteGreat title.
ReplyDeleteThough I'm sure Catholic social teaching doesn't just involve distributism; it's proponents say it must also involve Catholic social policies on issues like the family and abortion.
And we obviously don't have any "labour movement" or Parliamentary party advocating that in Britain.
They just want the money. Without the responsibility.
Not a single party. But it's there. It certainly isn't the other lot, either. But it's there.
DeleteHe is a wingman for Ed Miliband. Your main journalistic contact in the world, seemingly the only place you can get paid work, is a magazine founded by Pat Buchanan and Taki and staffed by your Buchananite mates. But you are the great hope of the left and he is an infiltrator. Yeah, right.
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