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The historian Simon Heffer, who wrote a biography of Enoch Powell, describes the decline of intelligence in Conservative MPs:
How would you compare the intellectual capacity of Mr Powell to the generic Tory MP today?
"Well, it’s the difference between prosecco and the Cuvee Winston... See more
Steven Edgintonx.comIf you had any doubt, @RoryStewartUK lays it out. Will Britain continue to tolerate this arrangement? It benefits the few, it destroys the many.
Philip Pilkingtonx.comThe Straussian Moment
gwern.netThis is an important distinction that bears repeating: Nigel Farage is not a conservative. He's a certain type of liberal. His political creed until very recently was Thatcherism, itself a type of liberalism -- drawn from the views of Hayek, or perhaps in British terms Manchester Liberalism. More recently, Mr Farage has flirted with more social... See more
Collingwood 🇬🇧x.comWhy Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far Right?
Julian Göpffarthopendemocracy.net
Les conservateurs britanniques comme les libéraux de la Commission avaient oublié et renié l’enseignement de leur père commun, Disraeli : « Je préfère la liberté dont nous jouissons au libéralisme qu’ils promettent et préfère aux droits de l’homme les droits des Anglais. »
Eric Zemmour • Le Suicide français
Britain’s most influential art critics, the Guardian’s Adrian Searle and the Daily Telegraph’s Richard Dorment.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
It is ironic, or providential, that Reform sparked civil war by exiling @RupertLowe10 on Ash Wednesday:
By putting the pursuit of power over principle, the best chance the national populist right has will spend a long time wandering in the political desert — time that the country does not... See more