Airstrip One

Tranris

Philip Chaston talks about the Transnational Right. But who are they? I would not personally include the socially liberal and tax raising Ken Clarke as he would in any sane world be counted as much a centrist as Tony Blair, perhaps more so. Even his youthful indulgence was not with Libertarianism or the Monday Club but Mosleyism, that strange extremism of the center (Europe a Nation and all that).

Perhaps it is the neo-conservatives who are the best exhibits of the Transnational Right, and their outriders in the Anglosphere Cult. To an untrained ear they seem to hold the international community in scorn (good) and even say good things about the nation state when contrasted to the Belgian Empire. However every now and again the mask slips, and they come up with some remark like Richard Perle's idea that Chancellor Schroeder should resign after he got elected on an anti-war and (let's be honest) anti-American platform. It's called regime change.