Sunday, July 24, 2005

Nick Cohen

Excellent post by Dave on Nick Cohen's continuing campaign against his neighbours. The line Dave quotes, "But it’s a far cry from Islington to the slums of the north" is truly remarkable.

It's strange thing constant mention of Islington, or Hampstead, by members of the Decent Left. It wasn't long ago, say less than 5 years, when if someone referred to those areas as a way of making a political argument you would know that they were right-wing reactionaries and had no proper argument. In fact it was almost a comic-book stereotype of such a figure.