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Why did I call this newsletter ‘The Conservative Vagabond’?

Why did I call this newsletter ‘The Conservative Vagabond’?

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Dara Macdonald
Feb 08, 2021
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Well, the short answer is that it’s a juxtaposition and an accurate description of me at that.

Firstly it is a hat tip to the dichotomy that Russell Kirk coined by the term Bohemian Tory. The travelling man of letters at odds with his socialist intellectual and creative contemporaries.     

Perhaps conservative isn’t a completely accurate description of m…

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