The Iraq war has been an amazing success, global warming is just a myth and Guantanamo Bay is practically a holiday camp. The annual cruise organized by the 'National Review,' mouthpiece of right-wing America, is a parallel universe populated by straight-talking, gun-toting, God-fearing Republicans.

My, such smug little brownshirts.

Oh is shock full of revelations such as this little nugget:

The nautical counter-revolution has docked in the perfectly-yellow
sands of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, and the Reviewers are clambering
overboard into the Latino world they want to wall off behind a
thousand-mile fence. They carry notebooks from the scribblings they
made during the seminar teaching them "How To Shop in Mexico". Over
breakfast, I forgot myself and said I was considering setting out to
find a local street kid who would show me round the barrios - the real
Mexico. They gaped. "Do you want to die?" one asked.