If you look at almost any prominent political thinking intellectual these days, they have all moved through at least three positions in the last three years. Everything is in transition since the end of what some people call the short 20th century. |
The Conservative Party is no longer conservative, the Labor Party is no longer socialist. |
The current sleaze scandal is potentially very, very damaging indeed for the government, because the real serious allegations are not now about individual MPs [members of Parliament] -- they're about the conduct of the government... |
The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done. |