I just posted the following over at PJM, but thought it worth putting here as well, in case people had an “inside” comments:
Palace Revolution at The Guardian
April Fools may be coming early this year at Adloyada, but the blog is reporting a virtual earthquake at England’s most religiously leftwing of all its dailies – The Guardian. Today’s paper publishes a column by self-described neocon Oliver Kamm. Adloyada says that’s only the beginning with the likes of Melanie Phillips, Mark Steyn, Norm Geras, David Aronovitch and even David T. of Harry’s Place beeing mooted as star columnists for the “Grauniad.” We’re skeptical but interested.
Sounds like April Fools to me: Mark Steyn and Scott Burgess? The suggested lineup of opinionistas would bring me to the Grauniad’s pages on a daily basis but I don’t see it happening anytime soon.
P.S. The Guardian may be as religiously left wing as the Church of England but it is the Independent that celebrates the true spirit of the born again fruit-cakes.
No April Fools, chuck. Purim. See PJ.
The day I see the Grauniad hosting articles by Scott Burgess, Melanie Phillips and Mark Steyn, I’ll cash my IRA and move to the Plaza Hotel, because it’d be a sign that the world’s about to come to an end.
It would be like the fall of the Soviet Union all over again.
Roger, the clue is in plain sight: “But I’ve got some sensational info from a Grauniad mole going by the moniker of P.Rimshpiel.”
If that one flew past you, you are too assimilated . . . .
I’m delighted to see Oliver Kamm in the Guardian, but he’s a self-styled “Europhile lefty,” not a self-styled neoconservative _ he politely but firmly rejected the label March 2 when a couple of people tried to pin it on him. (At least one, Daniel Johnson in Commentary, meant it as a compliment.) His book is subtitled, “The *left-wing* case for a neoconservative foreign policy” (emphasis added).