The Conversion Of Agnostic High Tories To

Yahweh Is Presented In The Jewish Bible As Stateless And Nationless. He Can’t Be Used As A Totem Or Fetish In That Way.

The British Are Supposed To Be Particularly Averse To Intellectuals, A Prejudice Closely Bound Up With Their Dislike Of Foreigners. Indeed, One Important Source Of This Anglo-saxon Distaste For Highbrows And Eggheads Was The French Revolution, Which Was Seen As An Attempt To Reconstruct Society On The Basis Of Abstract Rational Principles.

Schizophrenic Language Has In This Sense An Interesting Resemblance To Poetry.

[f]or The Most Part Football These Days Is The Opium Of The People, Not To Speak Of Their Crack Cocaine. Its Icon Is The Impeccably Tory, Slavishly Conformist Beckham. The Reds Are No Longer The Bolsheviks. Nobody Serious About Political Change Can Shirk The Fact That The Game Has To Be Abolished. And Any Political Outfit That Tried It On Would Have About As Much Chance Of Power As The Chief Executive Of Bp Has In Taking Over From Oprah Winfrey.

There Seems To Be Something In Humanity Which Will Not Bow Meekly To The Insolence Of Power.