Author: Christopher Gooding Editor: Ruth Lucas Two articles caught my eye recently. The first, a piece in The Telegraph by Madeline Grant titled, ‘ The Centrist Dads are back – and they’re smugger than ever’ . There, she decries the hypocrisy and self-righteousness of self-proclaimed centrists: “smug and intellectually lazy, they assume that the middle position must automatically be correct”. The second, Andrew Marr’s politics column in the New Statesman . There he details