The piece in the Telegraph today, suggesting that left wing people move right as a pack as they age, without realising it, so they are less left wing than they think, is interesting so far as it goes. But there’s a lot of confusion about right and left, as terms, and this piece might just [...]
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Right and left
Popular dishonesty
Theodore Dalrymple:
When the crowd tried to storm the Greek parliament, shouting, “Thieves! Thieves!,” its anger was misdirected. It was a classic case of what Freudians call projection: the attribution to others of one’s own faults. It is true that the Greek politicians are much to blame for the current situation, and [...]
Dream result for Tories?
After all, what’s another eighteen months?
Gordon Brown has dramatically changed the succession battle by laying down his own job in what is a final, desperate move to prevent a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.
A Labour-Lib Dem minority government would depend on the help of smaller parties and have a very finite life. There would be [...]
Voting
The Labour candidate in my constituency, John Cowan, was suspended recently, leaving an interesting situation. At the last election, the Conservatives took 26,374 votes, Lib Dems 17,750 and Labour 11,936. Labour votes are likely to drift to the Lib Dems, giving them a chance of a surprise gain. This led to a flurry of last-minute [...]
The anti-politics vote
Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. I have been incredibly busy, but it’s more that I don’t have the mental space to blog, right now, than a matter of time. In fact, I intend to spend a sunny afternoon in the garden right now, with a hot blonde and a G&T, rather than blog. Weird, I know.
However… in [...]
Constitutional monarchy
After the dislike of fractional reserve banking and the fondness for the gold standard, this is the third area I find bizarre about some libertarian thought, though this one applies only, so far as I am aware, to U.K. libertarians. Perhaps I’m slow on the uptake, but this was the subject that first made me [...]
Democracy news
Putin moves to appoint Kremlin successor.