Are You Serious, Bro?



I enjoyed this article in The Times in which Daniel Finkelstein affectionately, yet ruthlessly, demolishes an attack on a 'totalitarian' Tory Party launched by the award-winning playwright Alan Bennett, in the pages of The Guardian newspaper.

 Clearly a big fan of Bennet's work, Finkelstein doesn't shirk from exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy of the acclaimed author's flip-flopping arguments, but he does so with humour and intelligence instead of resorting to abuse or angry personal attacks. 
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4603874.ece

Are these seriously your views, Mr Bennett?

By Daniel Finkelstein


To approve of Jeremy Corbyn and to tear into the Tories for being ‘ideological’ shows inconsistency, if not worse

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