Over the course of my life, I've been variously described by critics as 'a vicious, suburban-minded bigot', 'a Nazi' and, rather surprisingly, 'a Bolshevik', all of which seem a tad harsh - I'm at most a vaguely libertarian throwback, at least emotionally, to a happier, simpler time when Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister, Britannia still ruled at least some of the waves and doctors in magazine ads actually encouraged you to smoke. I devote my time to the taking of occasional potshots at the passing political scene and the (entirely unsuccessful) pursuit of intelligent, classically beautiful women.
Think of me as the 'irate, tireless minority' in the Adams quote, although not in the same way that Jesse Jackson is. That said, if McDonalds promises to keep me in $2000 suits, I'll never call them 'racists' again.
'By a free country...I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like.' - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
'My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)...or give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.' - J R R Tolkein
'He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.' - G K Chesterton
'To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.' - Michael Oakeshott
'To me a Tory is a person who believes that authority is vested in institutions' - J. Enoch Powell