The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation

theatlantic.com ^ | October 15, 2022 | Tom McTague

[rrrod]

Don’t get excited you will get your Putin panties in a twist.

[JonPreston]

[No Party Affiliation]

Clearly, reading comprehension is not your strong suit. My comment was directed at the author’s writing style and made no comment on content, neo-Marxist or otherwise.

[nwrep]

No, but I admire good writing, even if it is fiction.

[zeestephen]

Re: "Clearly, reading comprehension is not your strong suit."

LOL - on a Conservative website, a newbie called "No Party Affiliation" praises the eloquence of a Hard Left propagandist, and MY reading comprehension is the issue?

[zeestephen]

Re: "I admire good writing, even if it is fiction."

One problem...

People who write fiction do not claim it is true.

[nwrep]

Of course they do, all the time. Nearly everything written by journalists over the past decade is fiction, yet they would say it is true. :-)

A certain incisiveness and precision of writing has been lost in the English-speaking population of the US over the past generation. Thankfully, Englishmen, of whatever persuasion, still possess the skill to wield the language as an artful weapon. American writers, on the other hand, are mired in platitudes, clichés and tired old phrases.

[Maris Crane]

I wonder if Charles gave her a private phone message.

It is such a blatant 180.

I was hoping she would succeed. Not a chance now.

[x]

For the first time in my adult life, there is a genuine sense of decay in Britain—a realization that something has been lost that will be difficult to recover

I guess he's under 40. That sense was all over Britain before that. You lost the empire and the vestiges of Victorian/Edwardian Britain are gone. That was a big trauma after the war and into the 70s.