Monday 14 January 2013

What Was She Thinking?

I reckon that That Article might have been Julie Burchill's pitch for the column on the newly Ed Balls-loving Sun on Sunday which has therefore been vacated by her old enemy Toby Young, who is accordingly now back down on the farm.

But that strikes me as more of an opportunity for the Maurice Glasman column that never quite happened, or to give a regular platform to the increasingly ubiquitous Neil Clark. The revival of paleo-Labour is something that is almost completely ignored by the media.

Yet it is the dominant tendency or sensibility in and around the party that is at 43 per cent in the polls. Even Rowenna Davis's Staggers posts have become very infrequent. For all Burchill's stylistic brilliance, Davis's views are the ones that now demand a wider hearing.

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