Once again I don’t have much to contribute to the general discourse other than to direct you to some article or webpage I have found online. I seem to have been doing rather a lot of that recently. The article I want to direct you to tonight, however, is noteworthy due to two things: firstly because it is firm evidence of something

I have long suspected, and secondly because it is found in the last place I thought you would find such an article. This article in the daily mail (YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT) states that scientists have found a possible link between conservatism and low intelligence. It states: ” Cognitive abilities are critical in forming impressions of other people and in being open minded,’ say the researchers. ‘Individuals with lower cognitive abilities may gravitate towards more socially conservative right-wing ideologies that maintain the status quo. ‘It provides a sense of order.’ ” I knew it – Tories are morons!

Joking aside, I don’t mean having low cognitive abilities makes you a bad person, and nor does being Tory for that matter. It is, however, firm evidence of something which I have long suspected: the right wing ideology is much more simplistic than that of the left. It is almost child-like in its need for rules, security and its dislike of change and difference. Mind you, this may now mean I have to rethink my personal rule which says anything in the Daily Mail should automatically be disbelieved.