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She's come a long way since she and Tony Parsons rocked up at the NME as the hip young gunslingers. Toby Young used to hang on her every word in the mid 80s, which probably tells you everything you need to know.
Markyboy-
A lot of these commentators seem to spend as much time rehashing old arguments with each other as anything else. Taking positions they know will upset or contradict former friend X or old rival Y etc. So we get rancid opinion pieces from somebody who is still upset by what Toby said at that party where Rod Liddle spiked Melanie Phillips's drink in an attempt to get off with her and this article will really show him/them.
It would just be laughably pathetic except they're politically connected. It's like an endless school reunion where instead of somebody emptying a pint over the head of that guy who slept with their girlfriend they come up with a scheme for forcing "Right to buy" on Housing Associations.
itsbruce
She's just a professional contrarian (and narcissist, but that is essentially part of the definition of contrarian, I think). When she was younger that mean she used anarchist or left-wing ideas to provoke; too many other people were doing that so she pivoted on supporting Thatcher. It's a constant negative spiral and she's pretty much gone full fascist for some time now.
Nothing matters more to her than outrage and attention. So it goes.