Much smoke over at on old post of mine called ‘Milbank in the Monstrosity of Christ‘. A certain Alasdair Maclagan is making some rather large claims for the way radical orthodoxy, blue labour and red toryism are about to change the world – well, at least England, which is certainly not the same thing, although some seem to think so. Even moles within the good old conservatives, which will soon rule that sodden patch of ground, are in on the act – of destroying liberalism and replacing it with the long-awaited golden age. Add the pope and we’re really into something, it seems. However, when I clicked on the edit function in the WordPress thingy I noticed something strange. You see, to make a comment on WordPress (for those of you not in the know), you need to add a name and an email address. And the address connected to the name of Alasdair Maclagan is:

john.milbank@nottingham.ac.uk.

Of course, this could be a clever ploy (kind of hope so since the arguments are so bad), but perhaps not, since Alasdair knows an awful lot about Milbank’s more obscure texts.