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Review of The Noble Liar

3rd April 2019 By Jenny James Taylor

Author: Robin Aitken
Publisher: Biteback
Reviewer: Jenny James Taylor

THERE are four things wrong with the society Britain has become: the insistence on ever-increasing prosperity, radical feminism, multiculturalism and political correctness.

Unpacking each of these in turn is Robin Aitken’s task in this heroic invective against the cheerleader of all that’s wrong: his old company, the BBC.

These things are ‘the destroyers of the old morality’ says the man who spent 25 years as a BBC journalist – and he ought to know.
In an astonishingly robust apologia for the Christian culture he says we once were, he is neither hysterical, nor emotional nor incoherent; just savvy. He brings the panache of a top Today Programme reporter to bear on all the issues that perplex us and without bothering with footnotes, and often not even bothering to substantiate his critique, because it’s all so obvious, he provides us with a look back at what we’ve lost and posits an earthy faith in the power of Christianity to provide the only way out.

Dismissing PC culture as ‘a fashionable melange of modish prejudice’, he is convinced that what faces us is ‘a project doomed to fail’ that will never deliver true social harmony because, as Patrick Deneen says in The Failure of Liberalism, it is a culture eating its children. It is unhappy, divided and morally disgusting and people will wake up soon and revolt – unless Islam takes over first, as French novelist Houellebeq reckons.

It is a set of ideas which runs counter to human nature, serving a tiny elite whose spokesman is the BBC. Buy the book and recover your will to live.

 

 

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mmJENNY JAMES TAYLOR specialises in religious literacy and was appointed Research Fellow in Communication, Media and Journalism at the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge in 2019. A Bloomsbury author and campaigner she pioneered religious literacy in journalism, founding Lapido Media in 2005 as a publicly subscribed online newspaper and publisher. Described by historian Tom Holland as 'groundbreaking', it helped to change the national secular discourse by providing resources for journalists needing to ‘get religion’ in an age of globalization. Widely travelled, Taylor has a doctorate in religion from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and has been published many times in academic journals and the mainstream and on-line media including the Guardian, the Times and, in translation, the European press. Her books include Faith and Power: Christianity and Islam in ‘Secular’ Britain with Lesslie Newbigin and Lamin Sanneh (SPCK 1998 and Wipf&Stock 2005) and A Wild Constraint (Continuum 2008), an extended essay on contemporary sexuality. An Associate of the Community of St Mary the Virgin, she lives where she was born, in Suffolk.

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