Waitrose Man?

It was baffling enough to see Michael Gove on Newsnight Review last night, so soon after his personal think-tank, Policy Exchange, had been exposed on Newsnight as a forgers' den.

But when he popped up Radio Four this morning to tell us that David Cameron had been sceptical about the Iraq War and was unlikely to take Britain into any future conflict, I nearly spat out my tea. Even Leo Strauss thought that the lies should at least be believable by the common herd (although he also assumed that the elite would know what was and what wasn't, as Iraq proved spectacularly was not the case).

Another contributor also suggested that Cameron appealed to people who shopped at Waitrose, who could identify with him. Has Cameron ever even set eyes on a branch of Waitrose? And has he ever been shopping (in the ordinary sense of the term - I don't mean an appointment in Savile Row or a potter around Fortnum & Mason) in his life? I strongly suspect not, in either case.