Tuesday, January 09, 2007

IF THE ECO-SNOBS had their way, none of us would go anywhere, writes Janet Daley @ the Daily Telegraph:
Just as ordinary working people had begun to enjoy the freedoms that the better-off have known for generations - the experience of other cultures, other cuisines, other climates - they are threatened with having those liberating possibilities priced out of their reach.

Perhaps there is still a bit of the Marxist agitator in me: when I hear rich people trying to deny enlightenment and pleasure to poor people, I reach for my megaphone.

Read the rest.