An excellent, forensic disquisition by Jack on the manifold problems of an Opposition that thinks focusing on the past and trying to bring back the glorious 1950s, is a recipe for electoral success in a fundamentally changed world. It really reflects the desire of conservatives across the Western world to secure the future by returning to the certainties of a past age that has no chance, thank God, of returning.
Currently, Labor offers no significant alternative in many policy areas and also seems to have a similar, if less urgent, fixation. In a sense, they are all desperately trying to revive the dying Western empire of colonialism and imperialism without recognising the growing emergence of a multipolar world which has a focus on equality of nations, peaceful co-existence and respect for mutual sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Their shared fear of China comes from them both living in a hall of mirrors where their own predilections are reflected back to them about far more sophisticated and civilised cultures.