Politics as a Spectator sport.

Foreign Policy | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

* The Spectator, 175th Anniversary Issue, 2003, London

Ever since Britain's Conservative Party defenestrated former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1990, after Thatcher had won three consecutive general elections, the party's standing in British politics has rapidly deteriorated. The Tories suffered two of the heaviest electoral defeats in their history in 1997 and 2001, and now only their incompetence allows British Prime Minister Tony Blair to hold on to power. In contrast, The Spectator--a weekly magazine traditionally regarded as the in-house ...

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