... that's what I am! Thanks, Bryan, for clearing that up: How to Compliment Americans.
As Lord Falkland put it, "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change." Regrettably, I don't think there's any political party catering to us Old Tories anymore.
I would have labeled you, rather, Tory Radical, which is what William Cobbett ("Rural Rides") was called. But maybe we've had enough of labels; they make things too easy.
ReplyDeleteYou may right. Roger - on both counts.
ReplyDeleteI've never been able to keep the Torys and the Whigs straight, but I know *you* rock, Frank.
ReplyDeleteIs the blog's name going to change?
John Ruskin described himself as a 'violent Tory of the old school'...
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