Thursday, August 11, 2005

Decadent Britain

Muslims are right that Britain is decadent, a group of Tory MPs have written to the Spectator to pronounce. They do so to agree with this article, which says much the same thing.

Ignoring the merits of the argument, isn't there something a little odd in writing to The Spectator (or even in The Spectator) with this sort of thing? Its (married with children) editor, a prominent Conservative MP, got its deputy-Editor pregnant, who then agreed to abort the baby. Another (married with children) deputy-editor left left his wife for the magazine's receptionist with whom he was having an affair, an affair for which he cut short his honeymoon. She's also now pregnant. Its (married with children) wine-critic had an affairs with its (married) publisher, who was also having affairs with a cabinet minister, and at least one other man. I've probably forgotten the rest but there's even a play about it.