Very good article, LucaBrasi. I agree with most of what Charles Moore says, but have believed it for years and years, unlike his recent conversion to it. Of course the Left are right on lots of things. But he has thrown teh baby out with the bath water. It's not capitalism and free markets and free competition that are wrong, it's crooks and cheats who corner teh market and create momoply power. That's why capitalism needs regulation to stop the crooks.
He is also wrong about the News of the World. In a free country people should be allowed to read what they like, not what Charles Moore in his ivory tower thinks is good for them.
He is also wrong about the EU banks, when he says
'As for the plight of the eurozone, this could have been designed by a Left-wing propagandist as a satire of how money-power works. A single currency is created. A single bank controls it. No democratic institution with any authority watches over it, and when the zone?s borrowings run into trouble, elected governments must submit to almost any indignity rather than let bankers get hurt. What about the workers? They must lose their jobs in Porto and Piraeus and Punchestown and Poggibonsi so that bankers in Frankfurt and bureaucrats in Brussels may sleep easily in their beds.'
It is the left who back the EU now and right wing Eurosceptics who are against it. He is right that teh power is centralized into a European bank, but it is the left that supports teh bankers and wanted us in the EMU, it was teh right that fought for independence from teh central bankers and teh central statism of the EU. It is the left who do teh bidding of teh bankers, just as they were the ones who bailed out teh bankers, while right wingers like Sarah Palin were against Obama's bail out of the banks and pro the bail out of the US motor industry.
You have to ask if Charles Moore means what he says, because if he does then we should expect teh Daily Telegraph to start being left wing. But don't hold your breath.
What is he really telling us?
Is he really hinting at the end of democracy?
He rightly says that the people have lost faith.
It started with the Daily Telegraph's reports on MPs' expenses, then it was teh bankers, now it is the press, the police and teh politicians. What's left?
He says he prays that conservatism can be saved. He says teh left's remedies are useless. He says there may not be much time left.
Our faith in our institutions has been undermined. Why were we shown what is behind the curtain?