BP’s donation of “shed loads of cash” to the British Museum should be celebrated and protected, otherwise staff will have to go and school trips will be cancelled, argues Tom Harris.
Orwell coined the phrase “Four legs good, two legs bad” as an illustration of the fatal limits of political ideology. Ignoring the lesson the Animal Farm author was trying to convey, the British Left, in the Eighties, tried to assert its moral superiority by declaring “Public good, private bad”.
Then Tony Blair happened and the Labour Party seemed comfortable with “whatever works” as a political philosophy so long as the public was thinking along the same lines. Yet the undercurrent of disdain for the private sector... Keep reading on The Telegraph
Orwell coined the phrase “Four legs good, two legs bad” as an illustration of the fatal limits of political ideology. Ignoring the lesson the Animal Farm author was trying to convey, the British Left, in the Eighties, tried to assert its moral superiority by declaring “Public good, private bad”.
Then Tony Blair happened and the Labour Party seemed comfortable with “whatever works” as a political philosophy so long as the public was thinking along the same lines. Yet the undercurrent of disdain for the private sector... Keep reading on The Telegraph