Airstrip One

Status Quo

Helen Szamuely (is she George Szamuely's sister by the way?) has written about the anti-war protesters demonstrating for the status quo. She thinks that this is a bad thing, although I hold that conservatism (as in the conserve) means a bit more than having a bigger car than the socialists next door. However Ms Szamuely is an astute observer of mindsets and such like, and well worth reading even if you don't agree with her instinctive pro-Americanism. Her piece on the Eurosceptic movement is a classic.