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- Tom Hardy Rapping With A Baby Is The Internet’s Reckoning
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- Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists
- Gretna Green residents are hoping for an influx of people wanting gay marriages.
- Climate sceptics carry out investigation, change their minds. Huzzah for science!
- Olympic opening ceremony: Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei's review
- Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments
- The New York Times gets more than half its money from subscribers. Still making a loss though.
- Employment Minister Chris Grayling moves to push people deemed too sick to work back into work.
- The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history.
- Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology
- Mississippi church refuses to marry black couple.
- The Lord of the Rings in 99 seconds. In song.
- All music sounds the same these days - Computer confirms what your gran always said.
- Ubisoft "Uplay" DRM allows _any_ website to take over your computer.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on being asked to produce books like Harry Potter, and the quality of her adaptations
- How our brains see men as people and women as body parts.
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Date: 2012-07-30 08:21 pm (UTC)The Telegraph talks to a constituency that is economically liberal (which in a British sense means free market, low taxes, floating exchange rates and responsible fiscal policy) but not socially conservative in the way that American conservatives would be. It has a strong libertarian streak, a good example of which would be Daniel Hannan, a Conservative Member of the European Parliament, who is probably on the far right of the party on a simple left-right axis, but who in American terms would have far more in common with the Libertarian Party than any Republican, even Tea Party Republicans.
Generally I agree with Andrew. I could see Obama reading it. I could also have seen Reagan reading it, but not Bush jr.
You may find my cut-out-and-keep guide to British newspapers useful: http://philmophlegm.livejournal.com/235261.html?view=1326589#t1326589
It's not entirely serious and mostly plays to popular stereotypes rather than the actual truth. Although I find that stereotypes often have a grain of truth in them. The stereotypical Daily Telegraph reader is a retired army colonel smoking a pipe living somewhere in rural southern England.
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Date: 2012-08-01 09:42 am (UTC)Personally, I think that use of the term 'Tory' to describe members and supporters of the Conservative and Unionist Party is misleading. That party emerged out of a faction within the Tories' traditional opponents, the Whigs. And what is more, the modern Conservatives, especially the modern libertarian right-wing of the party, probably have more in common with the Liberal Party of the 19th century than the Conservative Party of that time.