Literature/2010/Moore


 * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/7868842/Who-will-admit-that-the-Right-ways-are-not-the-wrong-ways.html

Editorial note
Nick Clegg's Great Repeal Bill is indeed great – but who thought of it first, asks Charles Moore.

Authors

 * Charles Hilary Moore : Born 31 October 1956, Hastings. Trinity College, Cambridge (BA in history).
 * Chairman of Policy Exchange, the conservative think tank.
 * Margaret Thatcher's authorised biographer for publication after her death.
 * Former editor of The Spectator (1984-90), the Sunday Telegraph (1992-5) and The Daily Telegraph (1995-2003).

Excerpts

 * The origin of Great Repeal Bill


 * Right-wing

Comments
The Great Repeal Bill is making it simple, doing without something. It may have been more or less affected by the 1973 energy crisis, Schumacher (1973) and Sober (1975). The simplified yang, the magnified yin. The less explication of written law, the more implication of unwritten law and "invisible hand," the metaphor that seized Ralph Harris and perhaps even Margaret Thatcher. The metaphor itself is an "implicature" (Paul Grice 1975), "implicit meaning" (Mary Douglas 1975), or "creative imagination" (Michael Polanyi 1975), covered with the face value or explicit meaning. (Incidentally, these three 1975 authors are as Oxonian as Thatcher.)