Saturday 19 May 2012

Post-Neoconservatism?

The website of the Henry Jackson Society is still publishing calls for war against Russia in aid of her "dissidents", without any exploration of who and what those dissidents are; so much for conservatives from Richard Nixon to Edward Norman.

That website is still berating "Arab liberals" for turning out not to have been members of Likud after all, as if there had ever been the slightest sensible suggestion that they were. As to the idea that either they or anyone else ought to be, so much for conservatives from Richard Nixon to Edward Norman.

Yet that same website is now half-blindly, but sincerely, feeling its way towards something called "inclusive capitalism". At least above the line, Harry's Place now promotes an approach to Israel and Palestine almost identical to that set out in my Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory.

And Gisela Stuart, originally a signatory both to the HJS and to the Euston Manifesto, has within the last 24 hours told the Any Questions audience that it was only right that the King of Bahrain had come to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of our own dear Queen. The reasons why it was can also be read in that same chapter of that same magnificent tome.

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