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Tuesday, 21st October 2008
The Brazen Bias Corporation
4:49pm
Last week, the papers were in full cry about the possibly dubious relationship between the Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who had met last summer on Deripaska’s yacht. Today, after a sensational letter to the Times from Nat Rothschild claiming that the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and the Tories’ chief fundraiser Andrew Feldman had also met Deripaska and had asked him for a donation to the party, the Tories discovered that the Exocet missile they thought they had fired at the government had turned into a boomerang. Their careful evasions today are fuelling the impression that they have been less than candid. So of course this is a big story, and it was right that BBC Radio Four’s Today programme should have given it pride of place in the 0810 slot.Boris succumbs to Neocon Derangement Syndrome
3:48pm
In his Telegraph column today, Boris Johnson declares a) that he ‘reveres’ your humble blogger and b) that he has been carefully studying my blog entries on Obama; but that despite a) and b) he finds not a scintilla of evidence that Obama is a ‘Marxist subversive loony Lefty’. He bases this judgment on having ‘trolled’ (surely ‘trawled’?)the net and concluded that Obama’s ‘terrorist chum’ William Ayers is a) a professor and b) not really a chum; and that thereforeThe entire set of allegations seem to be an attempt to smear him by association, and are about as damaging as pointing out that some of Tony Blair's colleagues used to be Stalinists, or that Tory party conferences used to feature people who advocated the hanging of Nelson Mandela.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008
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