Another Voice, por Matthew Parris (Spectator, 20 de Novembro)

The Right has won the argument, so why is it so angry and sour?

My father made a surprising remark to my mother and me last week. ‘I have the impression,’ he said, ‘that young people are more intelligent these days.’
‘What do you mean, Dad?’ I said.
‘Just that. Listening to what they talk about, what they know and what they are interested in, I just get the impression that people were duller and more limited when I was a young man.’