The Spectator’s literary pages have an unfortunate — though surely unintentional — habit of eating their own. They’ve slagged two out of three of my books and now, I regret to say, I’m about to do the same for Digby Anderson’s All Oiks Now.
In this pamphlet for the Social Affairs Unit, Anderson argues that the forces of Middle England have sold out to plebdom. Whereas you could once rely on ME (as he calls it) to be solid, respectable and churchgoing and to stand up for things like good table manners, diligence, economy, restraint and heterosexuality, now it has surrendered to the shiftless, slovenly amorality of the revolting lower orders.
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