I want to return to the question of centre and extreme in politics. It struck me again recently that everyone is in the centre. I first thought of this years ago when I read Naim Attallah’s interview with Maurice Cowling – not easily available now – in which, and I depend on memory, Cowling (notorious for being an unrepentant conservative, called ‘reactionary’ by others though not by himself) said he was “in the centre”. This was obviously ironic, since you were probably not supposed to think so, but also interesting, because of course Cowling was as central to his own world as he could possibly be. Well, here is Tommy Robinson (at around seven minutes into this otherwise chaotic discussion):
“I’m not far Right. I don’t follow neo-Nazi ideology.”
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