On the London Review of Books website former senior civil servant Jonathan Portes reviews David Goodhart's book The British Dream http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n12/jonathan-portes/an-exercise-in-scapegoating.
It's a very long review. Jonathan Portes writes screeds and screeds about the Goodhart magnam opus. Nearly four thousand words.
The length is presumably to try to convince people that he has examined the book seriously and weighed its arguments one by one.
But he rather gives himself away in the penultimate sentence when he says: "...that doesn’t stop The British Dream being an exercise in scapegoating."
The four thousand words of verbosity was just padding to support Jonathan Portes's intention to call David Goodhart a racist ("scapegoating" is just a polite word for racism).
And is this not predictable?
Anyone who criticises immigration must per se be a racist (in the eyes of the left).
I hope the London Review of Books has not paid him for this junk.
It's a very long review. Jonathan Portes writes screeds and screeds about the Goodhart magnam opus. Nearly four thousand words.
The length is presumably to try to convince people that he has examined the book seriously and weighed its arguments one by one.
But he rather gives himself away in the penultimate sentence when he says: "...that doesn’t stop The British Dream being an exercise in scapegoating."
The four thousand words of verbosity was just padding to support Jonathan Portes's intention to call David Goodhart a racist ("scapegoating" is just a polite word for racism).
And is this not predictable?
Anyone who criticises immigration must per se be a racist (in the eyes of the left).
I hope the London Review of Books has not paid him for this junk.
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