10-04-2010, 10:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2010, 01:40 AM by Paul Rigby.)
I am forcefully reminded of the Gland pamphlet symposium, “Conservatism in Crisis?” which appeared in the summer of 1963.
The opening salvo in the series, the Pike-Darkness penned “Are We All Masked Perverts?*,” meditated, among other things, on the Tory obsession with political “bottom.” To illustrate his point, Pike-Darkness recalled his first encounter with Sir Herbert Butterfield, who sidled up to him at a Cambridge meeting of the Young Conservatives and demanded to know if a young up-and-comer had a capacious one. “I wouldn’t know,” replied a momentarily perplexed P-D, “I’ve never kissed an Oxford arse.” Butterfield eyed him thoughtfully: “But you will one day, dear boy, if you hope to get on, you will.” History does not record Edward Heath’s thoughts on this exchange.
Incidentally, the second contribution to the series emanated from the hand of Mr. Anthony Earl Williams. “On Hampstead Heath by Moonlight” proposed “the cane and religion” as the twin-panaceas for Britain’s moral decline, as epitomised by the nocturnal activities AEW had observed there over many years. It remains a spanking good read, particularly after confession.
*Pike-Darkness found in the negative, for, as he explained, “Neither I, nor any of my fellow Conservative students of le vice anglais, have ever worn a mask for anything, least of all a thorough paddling.”
Little changes in Conservative rumplands:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/perso...unity.html
“Nothing cheers up a dinner party like a discussion about le vice anglais - so much more tasteful than discussing one's overdraft or women bishops.”
The opening salvo in the series, the Pike-Darkness penned “Are We All Masked Perverts?*,” meditated, among other things, on the Tory obsession with political “bottom.” To illustrate his point, Pike-Darkness recalled his first encounter with Sir Herbert Butterfield, who sidled up to him at a Cambridge meeting of the Young Conservatives and demanded to know if a young up-and-comer had a capacious one. “I wouldn’t know,” replied a momentarily perplexed P-D, “I’ve never kissed an Oxford arse.” Butterfield eyed him thoughtfully: “But you will one day, dear boy, if you hope to get on, you will.” History does not record Edward Heath’s thoughts on this exchange.
Incidentally, the second contribution to the series emanated from the hand of Mr. Anthony Earl Williams. “On Hampstead Heath by Moonlight” proposed “the cane and religion” as the twin-panaceas for Britain’s moral decline, as epitomised by the nocturnal activities AEW had observed there over many years. It remains a spanking good read, particularly after confession.
*Pike-Darkness found in the negative, for, as he explained, “Neither I, nor any of my fellow Conservative students of le vice anglais, have ever worn a mask for anything, least of all a thorough paddling.”
Little changes in Conservative rumplands:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/perso...unity.html
“Nothing cheers up a dinner party like a discussion about le vice anglais - so much more tasteful than discussing one's overdraft or women bishops.”