Today's Sunday Telegraph
Nothing particularly interesting, but things I agreed/disagreed with:Niall Ferguson argues that instead of being polarised politicallly and socially as most people think, the US is culturally and socially more homogenous than any other similar sized place. This I think is stating the obvious to most Europeans, indeed sometimes talking about the homogenity of the place can nearly get you labelled anti-American. I think Ferguson is missing the point, it tends to be Americans who talk about the polarisation, not people from other countries. Also he says that the American Left is more right-wing on every issue than the European Left. I'm not so sure this right, mainly in the area of woman's rights.
Matthew d'Acona says the Conservatives are still the party of opportunism after Wednesday's government defeat.
The Tories' opposition to this measure and their astonishing claim that it was all just a cunning ruse by Mr Blair to split the Conservative Party showed how far they still are from power.
It's worth rememberthing this, for if d'Acona really believes this measure is so important to justify the major curtailment of liberties then surely he must think much like the Sun, that they are 'traitors'. Yet I bet he'll have soon be singing their praises. I think he is posturing too.
Eric Anderson ridiculously gives an end-of-term report for both Blair (whom was at Fettes when he was housemaster) and Cameron (who was at Eton when he was headmaster). Whatever 30 or 40 years' later gives him any knowledge in this matter I do not know. That he thinks he can seems quite in character, I remember a college tutor of mine sitting next to him at a dinner in Lincoln College and once Anderson realised the man he was next to had no idea who Eric Anderson was he hardly spoke a word to him for the rest of the dinner.
posted by Matthew @ 11/13/2005 03:13:00 PM
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