The Tories played with fire and you can hear the flames crackling round you | Nick Cohen

These over-grown adolescents now skip away from the awful results of their folly Writing of the British intellectuals who fell for Stalin, George Orwell came up with a sentence that applies as well to today's conservatives as to the socialists of the 1930s. "So much of leftwing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot." I was repeating it almost hourly as I watched the frivolous, dishonest, over-privileged and over-grown adolescents who presumed to g...