The thing I find most surprising is that she went from being a protesting vegan hippy-type, to a Daily Mail reader who says "I don’t read the Guardian—nobody I know reads the Guardian". That's some shift to the right.
> There are currently a number of cases in which an assortment of
> unwashed dopey birds who slept with undercover officers are seeking
> compensation, even though no force or coercion was involved.
>
>Oh, do grow up.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2580603/RICHARD-LI...
and in 2012:
> It sounds as if the women were well up for it.
>
>And, anyway, have you seen the state of some of these birds, caked in mud, looking
> as if they haven’t been near a bath in months?
>
> Having sex with them is nothing less than heroic, way beyond the call of duty. It’s
> a dirty job, but someone had to do it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2081428/Abdullah-M...
The idea that people go around with a stable set of political (, intellectual, moral, etc.) preferences is a very modern one (c. 1950s) and we'd all be better off to get rid of it.