Kelvin The Teenager

Kelvin MacKenzie, never until recent months challenged about anything in his life, was characteristically Kevin The Teenager on the Today programme, and went off about the parliamentary expenses "scandal".

Now, listen carefully. Not a penny was ever paid out either for the duck house or for the moat. Not a penny. Like that "scandal", the same newspaper's reporters' entrapment of Ministers by pretending to be constituents when they were not, for which it received only some notional censure from the useless Press Complaints Commission, was an expression of New Right's arrival at hatred of Parliament as the natural conclusion of its hatred of the State. We live under the nasty but inevitable union between that and what has always been the anti-parliamentary fanaticism of the sociologically indistinguishable New Left.

But that newspaper was not and is not from the Murdoch stable. There is talk of "vengeful" politicians. But whacking the aged Murdoch and his decaying family is small fry stuff. The real prize is elsewhere. And the taking of it would open the space for conservative voices rather than for those of global capital in all its social liberalism, its fanatical secularism and its military adventurism, including a cheerful willingness to die (or, rather, to send other people to die) for America in a war against Britain or for Israel in a war against either. Pat Buchanan has been purged from MSNBC by order of the dear old ADL. But at least he was ever on it. You don't get that on the Telavivagraph.