Hari's Place

Glad to see him get his comeuppance after his treatment of the Holy Father? I suppose so. But there is more going on here. Those on the Left who supported the Iraq War and then recognised the error of their ways are being taken down. As are all articulate critics of the Coalition, the Heirs to Blair.

Simon Heffer, always polite and quite fair about Gordon Brown and then about Ed Miliband, has lost the national platform from which he might have told his readers to vote Labour if only because the alternative was David Cameron.

Peter Hitchens would be harder to silence, since his column is a significant factor contributing the Mail on Sunday's middle market lead. And Norman Tebbit is probably unsackable because he is Norman Tebbit.

But you never know. Each of them has as good as done an Enoch. If and when they actually do it, then they might very well get what Johann Hari has got.