Writing in 1940, the Catholic Herald columnist Douglas Jerrold describes the ways in which he thinks the English left misrepresented the Right. Jerrold has been described as a "romantic anticapitalist" in the style of Hilaire Belloc, with doubts about democracy and sympathies for Franco and (like George Bernard Shaw) Mussolini. He believed himself to be a true Tory as opposed to the plutocratic Conservatism of the Tory establishment. He was the influential editor of The English Review and later The New English Review.