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An interesting side question (which I am not in a good position to answer as I am not a regular reader) is why the relatively sudden drift? What has hitched them to the socially less liberal cause?

My guess is that they feel they are losing ground amongst the new US elite by not being supportive enough of the current US administration. Still, I would have thought that their audience is not that skewed to the US.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Jan 17th, 2006 at 03:01:52 PM EST
Any other insights from our friends in the UK?
Or is The Ecomomist regarded as, somehow, not British anymore? Just curious...

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
by Bernard on Tue Jan 17th, 2006 at 04:39:23 PM EST
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About half their readership is in the US, and presumably mostly in the managerial/rich classes, so they may be betting that following the Republican line is safe.

But I remember reading an article a few years back (I think it was in the New Yorker), when they had their last change in editor, which told the tale of the inside in-fighting for the job, with the ideological wing (the free marketeers) finally winning over the "internationalist" wing. That new editor brought most of the changes that we see now.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 17th, 2006 at 06:28:57 PM EST
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Sounds like what happened at the WSJ in the '60s.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jan 18th, 2006 at 05:54:05 PM EST
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Genuine economic interest is a non-factor. They just stealthily became a part of the neo-con ideological machine. The ideology is not Marxistic, but the method is a perfect form of the communistic "From-everyone-according-to-the-abilities-to-everyone-according-to-needs". Here "abilities" is any abus of position, wealth or reputation, "needs" are mostly political.  
by das monde on Wed Jan 18th, 2006 at 01:16:08 AM EST
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