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The Pope Strikes Back Theodore Dalrymple Teatime in America The The quarterly magazine of conservative thought The Pope Strikes The Principle of Counter Jumpers Back Unreason Christie Davies Theodore Dalrymple Brian Ridley Teatime in America NHS Freeloaders Soviet Spectre Anthony O’Hear Jane Kelly Pavel Stroilov Winter 2010 £4.99 Contents 3 Editorial Articles 17 Soviet Spectre Pavel Stroilov 4 The Pope Strikes Back 20 The Electric Book Theodore Dalrymple Mark Griffith 6 Descending to be Upwardly Mobile 22 State of the Fourth Estate Christie Davies Will Robinson 8 Teatime in America 24 Moscow Nights Anthony O’Hear Mattiya Kambona 11 NHS Freeloaders 25 Ragpickers Jane Kelly Pareen Chhibber 13 The Principle of Unreason 27 All True except the Facts Brian Ridley Hugh Nicklin 14 The Covenant of the Hatch 29 Eat Your Heart Out Diederik Boomsma Margaret Brown Columns Arts & Books 39 Alistair Cooke 32 Conservative Classic — 41 on Maurice Cowling Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 40 Kenneth Minogue 33 Reputations — 30 on Peter Coleman Ayn Rand 41 Robert Crowcroft 35 Roy Kerridge on Roger Scruton 36 Eternal Life 42 Christie Davies Peter Mullen on von Mises 43 Celia Haddon on Horses 38 Letters 45 David Ashton on Conspiracies 46 Helen Szamuely on Spies 47 Peter Mullen on Human Science 48 Penelope Tremayne Subscribe to the Salisbury Review on the Yemen 49 Daryl McCann on Christopher Hitchens There are several ways to pay: 50 Nigel Jones on Paris 1. Via the website: www.salisburyreview.co.uk (Click on 51 Frank Ellis Subscribe at the top). You can pay using your credit card on the Don battle or Paypal this way. 53 Film: Myles Harris 2. Credit card using either of these telephone numbers: on Bomber Harris 020 7226 7791 or 01908 281601 55 Music: Nigel Jarrett 3. Standing Order on Delius 4. Cheque to 33 Canonbury Park South, London N1 2JW For current subscription rates please see the inside back cover. 57 In Short Managing Editor: Merrie Cave Consulting Editors: Roger Scruton Lord Charles Cecil, Myles Harris, Mark Baillie, Christie Davies, Literary Editor: Ian Crowther 33 Canonbury Park South, London N1 2JW Tel: 020 7226 7791 Fax: 020 7354 0383 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.salisburyreview.co.uk n October David Cameron had a golden opportunity mess. Christie Davies in ‘Descending to be Upwardly to call the EU’s bluff over its demand for more Mobile’ shows how by fostering the myth of social Imoney. With the British public so hostile to the mobility liberals have trapped the poor at the bottom EU Berlaymont would have risked losing Britain’s of the social ladder. Jane Kelly in ‘NHS Freeloaders’ £6.4 billion a year (£260 per household per annum) questions why we allow tens of thousands of foreign contribution towards its towers and palaces. Why then free loaders to abuse the NHS, while Anthony O’Hear did he return to London mouthing public relations explains why The Tea Party Movement is a reaction to phrases like ‘Britain has made a real difference in America’s political class abandoning the principles of Brussels’ when it has done nothing of the kind. the Founding Fathers. He did so because he thinks he can work both sides of Theodore Dalrymple examines the furore over child the street; keep in with Brussels while selling himself abuse during the Pope’s visit and asks why abuse by to the British as a Eurosceptic. Cameron is a PR man, stepfathers, on a far greater scale in Britain than that ‘someone who may be called upon to put “a warm’n which occurred in the Catholic Church, attracts so fuzzy” spin on the company’s latest oil-spill.’ Despite little attention. In a criticism of aggressive secularism, the talk of cuts the Coalition is going to increase physicist Brian Ridley in ‘The Principle of Unreason’ expenditure by 9 per cent from £697 billion this year to shows why Stephen Hawking fails to explain the origin £757 billion in 2016. They have no option. We now have of the universe. Amsterdam City Councillor Diederick a population of 63 million, one fifth that of the United Boomsma describes how the Dutch government pays States, and a growing army of untrained and uneducated squatters and hooligans Danegeld. We have articles on people dependent on state benefits. Unemployables are e-books, how the press has substituted celebrity gossip kept off the streets by a sophisticated version of the for investigative journalism, a description of history bread throwing carts of the late Roman Empire, with the teaching in our schools and two excellent recollections of middle classes paying to feed, house and entertain them. Russia: one, by Pavel Stroilov, lifts a corner of the curtain Cameron has a choice; stay with Brussels in case this concealing the murky world of post Soviet international tax base founders or revolts as the Tea Party movement finance. in America suggests it might, or be the statesman. It is A Britain and Europe in which talent and thrift doubtful if Cameron, PR mouthpiece of a corporatist are penalised and state theft appeased reminds us of state, is the man. Rebecca West’s account of how, on a train in Croatia in He would need to impose zero immigration, a 1937, she met an elderly German businessman and his universal 18 per cent flat income tax rate, a 5 per cent wife fleeing the Nazis. ‘The latter,’ she wrote, ‘seemed corporation tax, and abolish the minimum wage. Only to have abolished every possible future for them. I those who had previously contributed enough to the reflected that if a train were filled with the citizens of the tax pot would be entitled to state help. Migrants only Western Roman Empire in the fourth century they would here for the free ride would find it best to leave. The have made much the same complaints. The reforms rest would be offered apprenticeships, or immediate of Diocletian and Constantine created a condition unskilled work. There would be food stamps and of exorbitant and unforeseeable taxes, of privileged travel vouchers, but no dole. Grammar schools must be officials, of a complicated civil administration that made restored and university places awarded only to the top endless demands on its subjects and gave them very little 5 per cent of school leavers. security in return.’ By 2050 will our grandchildren find We examine some of the reasons for the present themselves on such a train? The Salisbury Review — Winter 2010 3 The Pope Strikes Back Theodore Dalrymple t is a nice question as to whether a true or a false deeply indebted. Indeed, there is scarcely any kind of accusation provokes more outrage in the accused. debt or deficit to which we as a nation have not resorted ISo when, a few days before the Pope’s late visit in order to continue (at least for a time) on our vulgar to this island, Cardinal Kasper said that arriving at and degraded way. A nation that behaves thus is quite Heathrow was like arriving in a Third World country, without honour or self-respect, collective or individual. he was much excoriated by those who hate Cardinals All this Benedict XVI has seen with a perfectly clear as a matter of principle, and was immediately accused eye; and if what George Orwell once wrote, that we of racism, the accusation against which no defence is have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of known. the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men, we might Quite apart from the fact that the term Third World even call the Pope the George Orwell of our time. corresponds to no racial category, the all too swift Gratitude is seldom the reward of those who see resort to the accusation always puts me in mind of an unwelcome truth more clearly than others; quite Lear’s remark in Act IV: the reverse. But Benedict’s ‘crime,’ apart from being Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back. German, goes much further than his failure (or worse Thou hotly lusts to use her in that kind his refusal) to screen out the unpleasant consequences For which thou whip’st her. of consumerist materialism from his vision, which it is the duty of all right-thinking people. He lays down In other words, the accusation of racism is often but a ethical challenge to our utilitarian ways of thinking; a smokescreen for the accuser’s own doubts. in other words, he is a heretic to be excommunicated It is obvious to all who know Heathrow that the from the Church of Righteous Liberalism. Cardinal’s remarks about our largest airport could In pointing out some of the fallacies, have been interpreted in another way than racist: that oversimplifications, dangers and empirically its disorganisation, its atmosphere of always being on unfortunate results of contemporary rationalist the verge of chaos or collapse to be brought about by utopianism, the Pope is potentially provocative of the one more passenger, its over-crowdedness, its sheer kind of spiritual crisis that John Stuart Mill recounts in physical messiness, brings to mind the urbanisation his Autobiography. When he was twenty, Mill, who had of the Third World. Has anyone ever heard of people hitherto been trained as a kind of calculating machine choosing to fly through Heathrow when an alternative for the felicific calculus, asked himself a question, with presented itself, just because they liked the experience (for him) devastating results: of Terminal Three? The very idea is absurd; the question answers itself; and while the tendency or Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; ability to muddle through might be an admirable one that all the changes in institutions and opinions which in some circumstances, it certainly is not in the design you are looking forward to, could be erected this of airports.
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