Sunday 24 May 2015

Not All Right Now

Simon Heffer's column is still gone from the Daily Mail.

The Independent no longer even lists Nigel Farage on its website.

Peter Hitchens seems to be back for one week only in the Mail on Sunday, with a column that says almost nothing, and absolutely nothing new beyond a Walter Mitty-ish story about how he once never quite met Prince Charles, plus a brief film review that seems to struggle with the distinction between factual and imaginative material.

Beyond that, Rod Liddle is Labour Party member who has probably never voted for any other party in a parliamentary election, while the erstwhile Labour parliamentary candidate Tim Stanley shows mounting signs that he will be back in the party before I am. There is no suggestion that he has ever joined another one in the meantime.

Hitchens was spiked for trying to tell his readers to vote for Ed Miliband, but Peter Oborne actually did so. In The Spectator. Where Liddle also advocated a Labour vote. Still, Oborne does not now have a regular column anywhere. Nor has Ed West, who was last seen contributing the Blue Labour essay collection.

The main Conservative rebellion in the House of Commons during this session is going to be in defence of the Human Rights Act, with Ken Clarke as a key player, joined by Dominic Grieve, who is a kind of Continental Christian Democrat.

The anti-Cameron Right is over.

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