tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post5737259045851940451..comments2024-03-27T21:30:35.824+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: The Golden Age That Never WasLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-76241260673034539232007-07-17T02:41:00.000+00:002007-07-17T02:41:00.000+00:00Wars for Britain went on for a good while after WW...Wars for Britain went on for a good while after WW2<BR/>As did rationing and morality.<BR/>Even formal education lasted until the sixties or so.malpashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03465468581504191466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-25205263327424716132007-07-16T10:06:00.000+00:002007-07-16T10:06:00.000+00:00Most of those authoritarian provisions were remove...Most of those authoritarian provisions were removed once the war was over.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-23839235297624153922007-07-15T19:41:00.000+00:002007-07-15T19:41:00.000+00:00Don't get yours. Britain was run under 'War Social...Don't get yours. Britain was run under 'War Socialism' by a Conservative for the purpose of fighting a war for national survival. <BR/><BR/>There are advantages to modern living - but they're nearly all physicsl ones to do with improved technology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-17119374099704946202007-07-15T19:07:00.000+00:002007-07-15T19:07:00.000+00:00Don't get your point. At the beginning of the art...Don't get your point. At the beginning of the article, Jay speaks of a Britain of identity papers and a one party state, to modern sensibilities very much the framework which underpins Orwell's 1984. There are many advantages to modern living - Jay's point, I think, was that an anti-establishment viewpoint espoused by the liberal media has undermined institutions, not that evry was rosy some fifty years ago as you sometimes tend to imply.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-54167706397793610272007-07-15T17:56:00.000+00:002007-07-15T17:56:00.000+00:00Is Sean Gabb’s proposal the way back? Cultural Rev...Is Sean Gabb’s proposal the way back?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.candidlist.demon.co.uk/hampden/culturewar2.pdf" REL="nofollow"> Cultural Revolution, Culture War:<BR/>How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back</A><BR/><BR/>He has some interesting remedies for the BBC.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The full document is here <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.cps.org.uk/cpsfile.asp?id=727" REL="nofollow"> Confessions of a Reformed BBC Producer </A><BR/><BR/>If he had written it thirty years ago it might have saved a lot of trouble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com