Ever since J.S. Mill dubbed the Conservatives the “stupid party” back in the 1800s, conservatives have been caricatured as anti-intellectual, unsophisticated and inflexible moral busybodies. There’s been an extraordinary turnaround. Matt Taibbi, writing in Substack, points out that the stereotypes once used to slander conservatives now more accurately describe the left.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
