![]() ![]() As well as dashing off Op-eds for old Tory mouthpieces like The Telegraph (to be fair, the paper is now slightly to the left of The Guardian), he has been fraternizing with more outré elements of the Far Right. ![]() He combines a soft David Irving-like approach of glossing over corpses with the drunken rascality of the late Christopher Hitchens. That is-Russia and China.Īndrew Roberts is a bad-boy Victorian apologist, obscure here in the States and probably also at home beyond the war-buffs and hero-worshippers. Roberts’ Evil is Mordred, the mutant offspring of Arthur, sired by incest and Magian splendor. Liberals also believe in Evil, but on their lips it retains a certain colloquial irony. It is as if Blake killed off some 80,000 citizens of the United Kingdom by purposefully ignoring Covid and gutting the health care system over the last forty years, assisted by that infamous Marxian Khan, Vladimir Putin-who is Totally Evil. On the Right side, let us take one Andrew Roberts.Īccording to Roberts’ obit of the recently deceased Soviet spy, George Blake was ‘profoundly evil’, ‘an evil traitor’. But between these two neo-nostalgias, there is a confluence of interests. ![]() ![]() The New Cold War is having a very particular effect on the Right, just as it is on the liberals. “There is a kind of stupidity among the drunks, particularly when they are sober…” ![]()
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