Why Conservatives have embraced victimhood
It offers a means of turning failure into electoral success
IN HIS “LIFE OF THESEUS” Plutarch tells the story of the ship which carried Theseus and his crew back to Athens from their adventures in Crete. Awed by their heroism, the Athenians preserved the ship for several centuries by removing the old planks as they decayed and replacing them with new ones. Eventually the ship consisted entirely of new material. This led to a great debate among the philosophers: did the restored ship remain the same ship? Or was it a new one?
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The new victims”
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