From Spectator blogs One of the most influential and popular ideas of the post-war era was that of the Authoritarian Personality, which linked Fascism with a number of personality traits, including conventionalism, anti-intellectualism and prudery. Conservatism, in other words. It has become popular to believe that being Right-wing is synonymous with being authoritarian. Society may have no common culture or religion or body of literature, but everyone knows who the Nazis are. So as Nazism has pushed out much… Read on
America’s Left is just as eccentric as its Right
May 9, 2014 1 comment so far
From Spectator blogs Rory Sutherland writes in this week’s magazine that the Mozilla/Brendan Eich affair has finally put him off his dream of moving to the United States, quoting Andrew Sullivan that ‘The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society.’ The issue of gay marriage has changed politics in the English-speaking world in a way that perhaps people didn’t expect – breaking the liberal-Left’s final link… Read on
Katie Hopkins – this is why we have political correctness
July 8, 2013 Comment now
From Spectator blogs, July 9, 2013 I’ve been reminded just why political correctness exists: Katie Hopkins of the Apprentice, the TV show that glorifies the entrepreneurial ideal and the psychopathic levels of self-confidence that accompany it. Hopkins is on a bit of a roll with her homespun wisdom. Late last week she criticised ’lower class’ children’s names, saying: ‘I think you can tell a great deal from a name… I tend to think that children who have intelligent… Read on
Five Things that have changed Britain utterly
September 8, 2011 Comment now
Several Sundays ago, two sweet-looking, middle-aged women appeared at our front door in quick succession. The first handed me a colourful brochure promising an end to all suffering and, so long as we stuck by the tenets of her faith, eternal joy. A few minutes later, a second, wearing a red rosette, handed me leaflets promising an end to child poverty, inequality, the gender gap and racial division. Soon after, the failure of the end of the world to materialise… Read on
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