The latest edition of The Oldie includes a landmark article by David Gilmour on how utterly unconservative Thatcherism made the Conservative Party, which remains that way to this day, and which now even thinks that neoliberalism is Toryism.
Gilmour recalls how the franquistas were the biggest vandals of Spain's natural and humane heritage, often against Communist Party members "despairing at the rash of garish, hacienda-style villas that franquistas were inflicting on a green and tender landscape."
He sees the ostensible Tories as having become, in that sense, this country's franquistas, as a result of their adoption of what Spaniards always did recognise to be the utterly anti-conservative force of liberalismo manchesteriano: "The idol now [in the 1980s, and still today] was the free market, a concept that was not conservative at all."
If any readers of this site are not subscribers to The Oldie, and are thus missing out on N M Gwynne's review of Oliver Kamm, then the need to read Gilmour's piece ought to compel them to rectify that oversight forthwith.
You have been saying it for ever, the paleos would end up in the Democratic and Labour families, now the signs of it are obvious.
ReplyDeleteYou have been saying it n your books. The Oldie should review them and not Kamm!
ReplyDeleteI am not an Oldie. Clearly, Kamm now is.
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