I’m a right-winger. Here are some reasons why I think that’s a very respectable thing to be.
Posted by RDN under Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 9 May 2010. No comments.
This is still a country which is socially conservative, sexually permissive, economically entrepreneurial and obstinately attached to a statist welfare system. But we are less inclined to disenfranchise the fence-sitting Lib-Dem voters. What now for the Tories? More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Rightist manifestos on 9 March 2010. No comments.
I was bucked to have a piece run on the Guardian’s Comment Is Free (Cif). I was bemoaning Mr Cameron’s Makeover Politics. Here are a few reflections on the comments it received. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Mr C's Makeover Politics / Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 27 November 2009. No comments.
It is just possible that Philip Blond and the Red Toryism of his ResPublica are the very fig-leaf a true-blue Conservative Party needs. It may be that David Cameron, beyond his bland rebranding of the Tories, is thinking along these lines…. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 27 January 2009. No comments.
Capitalism in crisis. Economy in recession. Israel in the dock. A populist Democrat in the White House. What a wonderful time to love being on “The Right”. And it is surprisingly confident, too. More »
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / Rightist manifestos on 22 November 2008. No comments.
Mrs Thatcher was divisive, illiberal, militaristic and thought there was “no such thing as society”. Easy to hate the old bitch, then. And wrong. More »
Posted by RDN under Rightist manifestos on 22 November 2008. No comments.
Conservatives believe that we ought to preserve many of the values of the past. So how come they like capitalism which keeps changing the world? More »
Posted by RDN under Rightist manifestos on 21 November 2008. No comments.
I don’t like the soft-left, liberal, green agenda. Most of that’s pretty easy to explain and justify. But the “liberal” thing is tricky. More »
Posted by RDN under Rightist manifestos on 19 November 2008. No comments.
There are obvious reasons not to be on the right of the cultural and political debate. You won’t be liked, for start, and people will think you are selfish or even fascist. Here are some reasons in favour. More »
Posted by RDN under Rightist manifestos on 10 November 2008. No comments.
People flinch whenever one mentions “the right”. It’s true: right wing arguments are a hard sell. Here goes. More »
Posted by RDN under Rightist manifestos on 10 November 2008. No comments.
Intellectual and practical life is a series of paradoxes and conundrums. I would never follow a purist, though purism can be wonderfully clarifying. More »
