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Spectator

The Economist kann að vera skemmtilegast-skrifaða fagtímaritið en þá hlýtur Spectator að vera skemmtilegast-skrifaða pólitíska tímaritið. Svo virðist sem það sé einna helst vettvangur fyrir penna af Daily Telegraph til að láta gamminn geysa í lokuðum hópi. Enda virðist Specator eingöngu vera keypt af sérvitringum til hægri í pólitík.

Um virðingarleysi Blairs gagnvart verðandi kóngi þegar hann tilkynnti að hann yrði við útför páfa áður en tilkynnt var að brúðkaupi Karls og Kamillu væri frestað frá föstudegi til laugardags:

Still more curious was Tony Blair’s immediate determination to go to Rome. No prime minister has ever attended a papal funeral before, and with good reason. Britain is not a Roman Catholic country — though admittedly anyone who has read the British newspapers over the past few days might be forgiven for supposing that it was. The papacy stands for autocratic and hierarchical principles and attachments to ancient dogmas that are alien to the British state.

- How Blair betrays the Crown

Um meinta vanþekkingu ungs fólks á pólitík:

It is not as if young people were noticeably more ignorant about politics than the rest of us. According to a YouGov poll for this magazine, the vast majority of them were able to identify the roles of Mr Blair and Mr Howard and close to half of them were able to say what Jack Straw does for a living, which gives them the edge over me.

- Not as dumb as they look
Agust skrifaði 14.04.05 01:40

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