“on the left, but not of it”.
Oliver Kamm makes the powerful case, to quote Mick Hume, of being "on the left, but not of it".Being "on the left, but not of it", appears to be pretty similar to being a member of the "decent left". Thus I would assume Mick Hume is a member of the "decent left", not the other sort [though I might be wrong -- see comments]
But I can't, because I'm fed up with journalists on the right-wing broadsheets never correcting their errors. The Times seems to employ, much like the Telegraph, liars as journalists., particularly when it comes to tax. Their Business Editor, Patience Wheatcroft took the IFS's report on taxation, and just made up a bit about Council Tax, despite the report expressly stating the obvious. Boris Johnson took someone's tax bill, and quadrupled it, then pretended to find it scandalous. Last Summer we had that fiasco of the shock at Stamp Duty that is paid every year, without the corresponding articles about how rich people must be if they did that. But they'll never admit it. They don't even, unlike the Guardian or Independent, have corrections column.
posted by Matthew @ 4/22/2005 10:38:00 PM
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