On Liberty

Excellent - and well-worth reading – article from Frank Fisher in The Grauniad at CiF on the David Davis stand and the MSM's failure to make sense of it.

My Comment:

It's funny you should mention the motoons business. I strongly agree with Davis and his stance, but I was thinking that the last time I got this worked up about events in the Westminster soap opera it was my sheer anger at Jack Straw’s craven cowardly surrender to the attempts at blackmail from the fundamentalists and their threats to our civil liberties over the Danish cartoons..

It seems that now the remnants of the Left philosophy – its social policies – have collapsed as badly as its economic ones did in the 70s we are left with only the battle between us freedom-lovers and the authoritarians. Whether anyone now calls themselves ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ no longer matters – if it has ever really done. What matters now is whether you support liberty or authoritarianism.

So maybe – just maybe – David Davis is starting a new – and real – and long overdue paradigm-shift in British politics and society back towards what we always hoped it would be.

As for the ineptness of the journalists I remember a long time ago the TV critic in the SF mag Interzone once saying that all TV programmes eventually become soap operas. It seems the same applies to the Westminster Village show too, and the journalists get so involved with the various plotlines of the show that they cannot understand it when something real rather than scripted happens there.