Signs of the Times

Why is this person still employed by The Observer? When will he finally be made to do an Aaronovitch and clear off to the Times where he belongs?

That would be the same Times, house organ of British neoconservatism, which was last week hoodwinked into publishing as serious research the views on “sex education” of a publicly funded band of self-selecting , upper-middle-class teenagers such as also pen articles for the Guardian from time to time.

And that would be the same Times, house organ of British neoconservatism, which has hardly bothered to mention the party funding story, with which even the BBC is now running, in marked contrast to its past practice where much more serious scandals involving this government have been concerned.

Yet, of course, most Times and Sunday Times readers think that they are buying Tory papers, and would simply switch to the Telegraph if they ever suspected otherwise. Half of Sun readers always did vote Labour, and the Sun only started supporting Blair several years after most of the other half had decided to do so. And nobody buys the News of the World for the politics. So who cares who runs Rupert Murdoch’s British operation? No one with any sense.