So, leaving aside the possibility that they may all be alcoholics at different stages of the "J" curve, the question their mid-life conversions poses is whether they have had successful marxhorroidectomies, or whether they were always self-absorbed journopukes who never really believed in anything other than what seemed most likely to sell. I am in no doubt about the Hitchens brothers, but am still in two minds about Cohen. Weighing heavily against him is the following, which he does not appear to realize applies to his own writing.
Unfortunately, like many journalists accustomed to writing a 1,000-word column, Richards loses his way in a 100,000-word book. He seems to think that the extra space allows him to take detours into minute and forgettable detail, and forgets that with a book as much as with an article every sentence must earn its keep.
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Cohen's article with its final admonition for the new-old Next Edition of Labour to be 'less afraid' of the Conservative bias in the English electorate seems a little at odds with his previous notion that Brown became enchanted with the thoughts of the promise offered by that former bastion of Conservative appeal in the realm of higher finance.
ReplyDeleteCould it be that perhaps Brown was not too much afraid but too little? Once again one is confronted with the naivete of the advanced
followers of Marx. In the course of the dialectic, perhaps one myth will do as well as another.
Marxhorroids, Jay, marxhorroids. The inflamed residue of the gigantic effort required to push out the impacted stool of the "planned economy".
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