Here in the Guardian is an interview with the Pretty Boy Reactionary. He is a tough little scrapper and proud of provoking us old style lefties with his Historical defense of Empire. But an Empire tarted up like an expensive streetwalker, with the insight and imagination of a this ready and able apologist.Here is a quote:

“Ask me not are you rightwing, but ask me are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment? Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the Wealth of Nations and the Theory of Moral Sentiments, then I’m rightwing. If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx’s doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I’m rightwing. If you think that it’s rightwing to say that the welfare state has trapped 10-20% of the population of western Europe in a dependency culture, an abyss of social failure, then I’m rightwing.”