Because I seem to be missing the point of this brilliant piece of irony. Is it the Today programme’s last ditch effort to give the Mail editor an aneurysm; an article designed to achieve the Beeb’s aim of balance over time, and I just missed the Mark Steyn piece preceding it; or could it be just what it seems* – a lament that the left has failed to reach the Republican base and the fat, stupid, gun-totting, God-bothering idiots whose reflexive belief system “has every thinking person here in the US, except perhaps John McCain and Sarah Palin, worried”.
* For a clearer summary of Bageant’s argument, try this. Oh, and thanks to Andrew Ian Dodge in the comments for alerting me to the BBC piece.
Weekend 26th July 2025
Could someone tell these 4,000 people from public and private sectors that to save the human race they have been…