Tuesday 8 July 2014

The Tebbit Test

Its support for the abolition of the age of consent was one of Norman Tebbit's grounds for kicking out the Federation of Conservative Students.

The New Right of that period was awash with this kind of thing, forever publishing pamphlets in favour of it. And the rest...

This is libertarianism, which, in a development for which Tebbit is not without some share of responsibility, almost everyone now thinks is conservatism.

You cannot have that without this.

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