All power corrupts. But how it corrupts depends on circumstance. In the case of the British right, 14 years of power without achievement have produced a cynicism that borders on nihilism.
Like a ravaged old addict, the UK’s Conservatives experimented with every thrill know to the right. Their failure to find a high destroyed them – and nearly destroyed …
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