Fraser Nelson apparently believes he has some standing to complain about other people’s accounting. He is very angry about a Tory party political broadcast in which he says David Cameron “tells porkies”. In fact I count 12 occasions in which he accuses the prime minister of lying. Further, he says: Financiers are, quite literally, prosecuted…
Read More Fraser Nelson: HackSpeaking of political reptiles, here are some more, dinosaurs this time: One female Conservative MP tells a story about how, in the weeks after the influx of new female Tories into the House of Commons at the last election, some of her male colleagues struggled to tell them apart. Instead they resorted to calling any…
Read More The Guardian is not a good newspaper, it is merely the least bad newspaperSunny Hundal has a go at this rather floppy interview with Paul Staines. The interesting bit is right at the finish: “I think the internet means you can raise funds online in a different way. Labour goes to the union barons to get big cash-flows; the Tories go to the City. But I think the…
Read More Paul Staines Has a WebsiteIf this government had an aesthetic, it would be the YBAs’; sheep chopped in half in formaldehyde, everyone I’ve ever slept with, yadda yadda. Being “shocking”, in a highly conservative and derivative way. I submit that it is no coincidence that their biggest patron was Maurice Saatchi. Of course the great threat to the professionally…
Read More If Damien Hirst was in government nothing would be at all different