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# In praise of Iain Dale - but not his readers
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/in-praise-of-iain-dale-but-not-his-readers/
- Published: 2007-07-25T15:07:28.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:36:53.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/05/08/hot-off-press-call-for-new-settlement/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** Iain Dale has been in Rawanda [and reports ](http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/07/wednesday-open-thread.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)that he has lost one-third of his readers. He wants them back. Let them go, Iain! What kind of small mindedness and, yes, little Englandism, is it, that can't even check in to learn a little of the genocide, of Cameron's concern for it, and of what the UK looks like from there? It was a good call to go. Any conservatism, one might have thought especially a British conservatism, that looses interest in the wider world will never make it at home.