tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190304989655261330.post1691959085810053773..comments2023-10-25T10:47:16.360+01:00Comments on GK Chesterton Society of Ireland: Peter Hitchens Quotes Father Brown...The Irish Chesterton Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423089604496089878noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190304989655261330.post-62011580222031620622011-03-17T11:38:28.114+00:002011-03-17T11:38:28.114+00:00Someone should write a book about the well-trodden...Someone should write a book about the well-trodden path from liberal to conservative. How many intellectuals, writers and others have taken it? Peter Hitchens himself was a Trotskyist in this youth. Hitchens I admire because he tries to be consistent in his conservatism and not just reactionary. He refuses to support the Tory Party (saying they're not conservatives anymore), the BNP (saying they're racist), the free market (which he rightly points out can be just as anti-conservative and anti-tradition as anything else) and now he has come out in favour of tough laws against smoking and alcohol, since he can't square liberalism towards those with suppression of drugs. I don't necessarily agree with him on the logic in the last case, but I do really admire him for striving after integrity and not just "picking a side". I love that he was called the Daily Mail's "fulminator-in-chief". I fear he will be the last "arch-Tory"-- a breed worth preserving if only for sentimental reasons.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190304989655261330.post-54921324376055518182011-03-17T11:18:24.576+00:002011-03-17T11:18:24.576+00:00Hitchens is a barometer of change within the indiv...Hitchens is a barometer of change within the individual, I find. When I was much younger, I found him to be an arch-Tory crackpot; perhaps he is, but as I've gotten older, I've been disturbed to find that even arch-Tory crackpots aren't always wrong about everything. Frightening, eh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com