Extreme Centre?

Filed with Ideology & Foundations · Related: Political Philosophy (MOC) · 60.18 Western Civ

The younger Marshall insists that he is not a conservative and claims to be equally [repulsed](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/winston-marshall-quites-mumford-and-sons-1188889/) by “political extremism” on the left and the right. Yet despite his hatred of extremes, he personifies what historian Tariq Ali calls “the extreme Centre”: He holds a hodgepodge of often contradictory right- and left-wing views, which in his mind make him a free-thinking radical and in practice help uphold the status quo. His self-conception as a bold purveyor of “dissident” ideas and victim of “cancel culture” is difficult to reconcile with his actual identity as the [multimillionaire](https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/winston-marshall-net-worth-20220711) scion of a right-wing plutocrat [poised](https://www.ft.com/content/7740464a-c4c2-4359-9624-9d27cf81c867) to become the most powerful figure in U.K. media since Rupert Murdoch.

Interesting idea of an “extreme centre” — look into it more