As a longtime fan of The Spectator, I’ve been appalled by the wet Tory turn it has taken in recent years. It’s fast becoming yet another captured expression of bien-pensant, Sensible™️ left-leaning discourse. Hopefully we’ll see the whole Tomlinson debate someday, in the spirit of liberal free speech (but I’m doubtful).
The Reform/Restore split will guarantee another far-left coalition, quite possibly led this time by the sectarian, fascistic and neo-communist Green party: Britain would be lucky to recover from five years of Labour; five more would be – beyond question – suicidal.
Restore feels more soy every day, I’m sorry to say. Lowe’s effete, geopolitical isolationism and his dishonourable advocacy of continued freeloading – within an international balance of power from which we benefit enormously as a small, trading island nation – is neither serious nor commendable.
Prudentially applied, this need not mean endless foreign entanglements either: it is not forever 2003, any more than it is forever 1939. I would welcome Connor’s (not Rupert’s) thoughts on this at some point.
