{"id":121264,"date":"2023-03-10T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/?p=121264"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:10:47","slug":"douglas-murray-the-spectator-can-you-really-be-radicalised-by-great-british-railway-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/2023\/03\/10\/douglas-murray-the-spectator-can-you-really-be-radicalised-by-great-british-railway-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Murray &#8211; The Spectator &#8211; Can you really be radicalised by Great British Railway Journeys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>The late <strong>Robert Conquest <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>adumbrated three rules of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most famous<\/p>\n<p>(also known as O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s law)<\/p>\n<p>is that<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Any organisation not explicitly<\/p>\n<p>and constitutionally right-wing<\/p>\n<p>will sooner or later become left-wing\u2019.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I would like to add a fourth law:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Any programme set up by government<\/p>\n<p>will inevitably metastasise unless<\/p>\n<p>consciously cut back by observant officials.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>article\/<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/can-you-really-be-radicalised-by-great-british-railway-journeys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can-you-really-be-radicalised<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/can-you-really-be-radicalised-by-great-british-railway-journeys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">-by-great-british-railway-journeys\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&lt;&lt; The late Robert Conquest adumbrated three rules of politics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5265,1768,1619,31052,66,11135,65,12347,28892,10994,25966,19533,10452,29312,6928],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-adam-smith","category-b-aldous-huxley","category-b-c-s-lewis","category-b-edmund-burke","category-b-orwell","category-b-john-locke","category-b-tolkien","category-b-joseph-conrad","category-b-thomas-carlyle","category-b-thomas-hobbes","category-itvs-bbc-great-railway-journeys","category-ra-hobbes-leviathan","category-r-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-1984","category-rev-halifirien-hfz2023-jrrt-tkn","category-tf-michael-portillo-great-british-railway-journeys"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121268,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121264\/revisions\/121268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}