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Telegraphed Nonsense

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On Saturdays, I get the Telegraph delivered. Don’t judge me, I just like the supplements. Will Greenwood on rugby alone makes up for the raving Tory-dom. Plus the General Knowledge crossword makes me feel smart.

Normally I ignore most of the ‘Comment’ page (that would, I believe, be the Op-Ed section, if you’re an American), especially if it’s a day when Boris Johnson indulges his wholehearted interest in the Classics and generally gets stuff wrong. However, today I took a look at the section because it had Charles Moore, former editor, autobiographer-in-progress of Margaret Thatcher writing about the George Osborne Situation, and I’ve spent most of the last week referring to Little Georgie as a “complete ninny”. I maintain that it is so far beyond dim to go to a party on Corfu and then gossip snarkily about another attendee – one, moreover, who has the nickname ‘Prince of Darkness’ – when you also spoke to the nice Russian man, without expecting there to be repercussions that it is actually impossible to do more than shake one’s head sadly and call the man a ninny, a nincompoop, or a twit.

This is Moore: “The Tory dogs did not rush out barking to defend their man… Why?… The first [reason] is that lots of Tories do not like Mr Osborne very much. This is a pity, since he is the most able political tactician they have. They should recognise that master tacticians sometimes need to have unrepeatable conversations with unspeakable people, and be understanding when they are caught out doing so. Instead of which, a shadow cabinet minister was quoted – unattributably of course – as calling him a ‘twerp’.”  Read more...

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