Volume 48, Number 12 · July 19, 2001
'Twas a Famous Victory
By Tony Judt
During a BBC radio discussion of the upcoming British elections, a young journalist voiced her frustration. 'Don't you agree,' she asked her fellow panelists, 'that there's no real choice? Tony Blair believes in privatization, just like Mrs. Thatcher.' 'Not quite,' replied Charles Moore, editor of the (Conservative) Daily Telegraph. 'Margaret Thatcher believed in privatization. Tony Blair just likes rich people.' That is indeed so, and although Moore's witticism doesn't really address the question, it points, perhaps inadvertently, to something seriously amiss in England today.
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