This piece by Daniel Johnson in Commentary magazine ought to drive the British Left crazy.
The British are proud of their independence; they follow American fashions, whether from Hollywood or Washington, only if they can make them their own. Fortunately, Tony Blair made foreign-policy neoconservatism his own before most Britons had even heard of it, so both it and the domestic-policy variety may well have a future in Britain beyond the temporal horizon of the Blair era. From an ideological point of view, certainly, it is the only antidote to the viruses of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and Islamo-fascism, all of which are now coursing through the bloodstream of the British body politic. But the necessity of neoconservatism has to be explained and popularized, as David Cameron seems to grasp. For that, many more first-rate intellectuals like Oliver Kamm and Douglas Murray will need to be mobilized. They might well take their cue from their peers on the other side of the Atlantic, where think tanks, sympathetic TV networks and websites, and above all the great American magazines and journals together constitute a permanent symposium on neoconservative thought.
