Left, Right, Left, Right. About turn?

In an uncanny corollary to my notion that Nick Cohen is the Right-Winger on the Left, Hugo Rifkind in the current issue of the Spectator writes that Rod Liddle is the Left-Winger on the Right.

It's unnerving. I am definitely of the Right and yet I find myself not only agreeing with almost everything I read by Cohen these days (in my journals of choice, at least) but actively seeking him out in order once again to enjoy that little thrill of -- what? Affirmation? Recognition? Sheer relief? ... which one gets from reading one's own opinions expressed by an accomplished wordsmith with a reputation for not sharing one's own prejudices. Rod Liddle, too, while less ambitious in his target selection, is breaking out of his Leftie straitjacket and throwing pebbles at his former Lares.

My God. Am I turning Left? Or has Cohen, like Liddle (and Gilligan), turned Right? Or have they finally seen the light and decided to throw a lifetime's collection of Leftie talismans (talismen?) up in the air and see where they land? Or maybe they just grew up - or old.

I never dared be radical when young, For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost: Precaution.

Anyway, it's good to have gifted journalists with first-hand knowledge whereof they speak challenging the hypocritical, misogynistic nihilists of the Left and doing so, surely, at some cost to themselves.