First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog

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1. The Bolter says:

   November 21, 2008 at 7:32 pm

   Unremarkable that faux prole little Toby Young, having publicly failed in so very many areas of his insignificant media life - formerly devoted to promoting celebrity culture ( who can forget the literary wag’s comment about Young and the equally boring Julie Burchill’s thankfully short-lived publication the Modern Review : ” All the people one hopes to avoid - now safely all in one magazine ” ) - now suggests celebrity culture is being beastly to the prole

   A more likely reason for immobility (” who’s the gentry - down our entry - all our streets got two TVs “) such as Young perceives might be the absurdly politicised, now widely acknowledged as disastrous, 1970s left wing educational policies (and drug culture) swamping much of Britain with two generations of virtually unemployable mutants (anywhere outside the media, that is) who demand taxpayers pay for them courtesy of the artfully ( in this post-Labour world, Labour politicians are the reactionaries - keeping the poor just that in order to justify their massive salaries )unreformed welfare state - and who can blame them ?