Politics on the Edge

But this age was ending in 2005 – when Cameron became Conservative leader. That was the year in which the number of democracies ceased to increase, and in which the civil war in Iraq exposed the full catastrophe of the Iraq intervention. It was the last year in which the British economy was larger than the Chinese. Facebook had just been founded, Twitter was about to be launched. And I did not feel that he found it easy to adjust the views he had formed to this new context.

As my favourite Cumbrian hotelier liked to say, ‘Chocolates on pillows can’t excuse filthy sheets.’