Dispatches
from a Dying Country: Reflections on Modern England
Sean Gabb
Introduction by Chris R. Tame
© The Hampden Press, Sean Gabb, 2001
© The Hampden Press, Chris R. Tame (Introduction),
2001
First edition, August 2001, 234pp
ISBN: 0 9541032 0 3
£20/$40
NB
- This book is now of of stock. The price has been raised because each
copy now sent out must be individually printed and bound in hard covers.
Dispatches From a Dying Country is an acerbic account of the gradual deconstruction of the essentially liberal traditions of England, a country that the author argues – and documents – is moving ever closer to a police state. England is becoming a nation of serfs under surveillance, harried for their own alleged good by governments and special interests that make use of assorted moral panics to establish their hegemony. The alleged menace of religious cults, of drugs, drunk drivers, demonic gun owners, paedophiles, pornographers and the spectre of “racism” are just parts of the plague of mythological and socially constructed pseudo-menaces that are used to engineer the legitimation of our rulers. Dr Gabb further exposes the sordid power lusts, tactics and hypocrisies of what he terms the “Enemy Class” – the parasitic class of politicians, administrators, lawyers, “experts”, educators, media people and state employees – who are constructing their new order on a trumped-up basis of post-socialist corporatism and “politically correct” pieties. He is no less virulent, however, against what he calls the “Quisling Right”, those Tory politicians and their media cronies who posture as defenders of freedom, but who do nothing effective to defend it in practice.
*****
These are consistently penetrating essays by one
of the most fearless
libertarian and conservative writers in Britain
Dr Dennis O’Keeffe, Senior Research Fellow in Education,
Institute of Economic Affairs
On issues of individual rights and personal freedom
I find myself agreeing
with much of Sean Gabb's critique of the
authoritarian state
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
Sean Gabb has been too long in the sun, and this
shows in his writing
Teresa Gorman, former Conservative MP for Billericay
I hope you are very rich. Would you please let
me both have a note of your postal address
and where you would like me to serve court papers
on you
Ian Bruce, former Conservative MP for South Dorset
*****
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