However there are always ifs and buts, and if anyone supposes I am trying to diminish Malcolm's win by making excuses, they are wrong. |
This is at least, one supposes, predicated on the recognition that the Right's symbolic resources are pretty nugatory. |
This supposes we have, on one side, the joyful hedonists and on the other, mournful, lack-lustre moralizers. |
But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre. |
Nor was Churchill's coquetting with the Tory right as late and odd as Jenkins supposes. |
The paternalistic account supposes that the masters of mankind have their inferiors' interest at heart. |