Introduction

This week the National Conservatism Conference has been taking place. It's a hard-right jamboree attended by speakers offering a true smorgasbord of extreme and gruesome opinion some of whom I'm afraid to say are actually running the country. The Cordon Saniteur which used to exist around nationalism until recent years existed not because we didn't trust the idea of love of country but out of recognition there was a problem with nationalism in a German context. Mucked up is normally a term you hear used for screwing up your mass exam missing a football penalty maybe saying something insensitive to a friend in conversation for Douglas Murray mocking up includes the attempted extermination of the entire Jewish population