Mark Steyn is worried that the British right is going to seed:

“I hardly dare open The Daily Telegraph these days. One morning it’s an appreciation of Joe Strummer that reveals the former Clash punk to have been an “avid reader” of this paper. The next, it’s the old Red Wedgie himself, Billy Bragg, holding forth as a Telegraph columnist. I turn to the leaders opposite only to find yet another call by Charles “Ganja” Moore for the legalisation of drugs…”

Yes, he’s funny, that Steyn. I laughed smugly and then read a little further on:

“It’s no better across the Atlantic. My friends at William F Buckley’s National Review claim to have identified a phenomenon they call “punky-cons”, punk conservatives who understand that the punk movement was a rebellion against the grey torpor of Callaghan’s Britain and thus the advance guard of Thatcherism… “

Oh no, is the Corner in trouble with the sage of New Hampshire?