Polly’s pejorative prescription
Polly Toynbee, once again gearing up to urge us to vote for authoritarian war criminals, offers a prescription for better political engagement in Britain…
It needs a change of culture in political parties, in the media, among sneering intellectuals, among ranting bloggers, and in civic engagement.
One notes that it is only intellectuals and bloggers that she felt the need to prefix with pejorative adjectives. How very… engaging of her. One has, of course, never seen a ranting or sneering politician or journalist.
Posted on March 8th, 2009 at 8:27am under Culture, media and sport, UK politics
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Perhaps she means that it’s only the “sneering” intellectuals and “ranting” bloggers that are part of the problem, and that all the other intellectuals and bloggers are just dandy. On the other hand, absolutely all politicians and media need a change of culture.
Any intellectuals who aren’t sneering and any bloggers who aren’t ranting are not paying attention.
Everyone says ‘we need a change of political/media culture’. And it’s true. But how many people say what they think this glorious ‘new culture’ should look like?