I used to quite rate Peter Hitchens. Nearly always wrong, but a free thinker on the right who was worth reading. Turns out he's just like any old moron.
Covid has acted like a ruthless spotlight on parts the right, highlighting all the worst flaws among a clutch of Conservatives columnists and MPs.
Preening self-interest, look-at-me contrarianism, anti-science gibberish, a borderline social Darwinist indifference to the lives of the vulnerable, and a basic lack of objectivity or social responsibility. I'm seeing this even now all over the pages of the right-wing press.
But when you reveal yourself in a pandemic, you really reveal yourself quite thoroughly. Anyone adopting the idiot-sceptic position during the last year really isn't worthy of our time or attention on any other issue.
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