Good Picture, but no argument. A disappointing riposte.

My almost-interesting left-wing critic Mr J.T. White has responded here  http://livinginphilistia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/a-response-to-peter-hitchens.html?spref=fb

 

Making full use of the August 1969 picture which I shared with readers here some months ago to my earlier post responding to him http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2014/12/left-wing-person-nearly-says-something-interesting.html

 

Here’s his original article http://livinginphilistia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/why-i-respect-peter-hitchens.html

 

 As it’s Christmas, let’s pursue this a bit (but not too much):

 

He retreats from his nostalgia accusation, saying it was aimed at something called ‘the reactionary press in general’ (whatever that may be, such a construct would have been out of date in 1965, let alone now. Does he actually *read* the papers?). It looked pretty specific to me, but I’ll always take surrendered ground when offered, and not fuss too much about the face-saving words  which the retreating person sometimes feels the need to say .

 

But this was not my ‘main problem’ with what he wrote. It was his evasion of the problem of the left, that they cannot possibly have meant to foul up our society so completely, yet will never attribute any of the disasters they have caused to their own ideas.

 

After following the link , I still don’t think he addresses this. Perhaps he would care to.  I do very much recommend that he actually finds out what I think first. There are a number of books which he may read, starting with ‘The Abolition of Britain’, which may help. But he needs to grasp that I am not a Thatcherite or any kind of economic liberal,  and that I loathe the Tory Party, probably more than he does.