Friday, 21st November 2008
Saviour -- or destroyer?
4:25pm
Eyebrows have been raised in some quarters over the fact that on BBC One’s Question Time last night, I scorned the Tories’ position on the economic crisis. Some people seem to think that because I oppose the Labour Party on so many things, I am a Tory. I have news for them. I am not, and have never been, a Tory. I suppose I regard myself as an old fashioned liberal moralist from the progressive wing of politics; my great quarrel with the left is that it has hijacked the words ’liberal’ and ‘progressive’ and turned them into their antithesis, abandoning and betraying the very people at the bottom of the pile about whom they pretend to care so much, junking truth, morality and freedom for lies, injustice and power and destroying our society (and threatening the free...
Friday, 21 November 2008
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