The Tory press officer responded far better to the Channel 4 correspondent’s pursuit than many a politician.
Three-quarters of the former believe that the latter should not be entitled to vote in the coming Party leadership election.
Plus: Soames’s “serious environmental work” (i.e: shooting). Brothers Cash and Jenkin lose the plot. The agony of Kevan Jones. And: I am shaken by a Psychedelic Orgasm.
Looking at long lines of miserable British people awaiting one handout or another, he fired back: “The socialist dream is no longer Utopia, but Queue-topia!”
Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership won’t last forever.
If Yvette Cooper, for example, pipped him to the post, she could do the Government damage on the migration issue.
This week, hundreds of thousands of Year 10 pupils will start being taught the new and more rigorous English and maths qualification.
His passionate defence of the welfare state runs counter to values that are truly embedded in their psyche: self-reliance, personal responsibility, entrepreneurialism.
The nearer a Corbyn win gets, the more seriously Tories take it – and the less they like the look of it.
Marxist agitprop has been largely abandoned in his own backyard.
Authors have less access to papers than their predecessors, and their subjects tend to be less interesting – and are often still alive.
It seems unlikely he could tack far enough to the centre to matter without completely alienating his power base and repudiating his own beliefs.
British freight trains averaged 22½ mph in 1973 – that’s slower than Usain Bolt.
Tories are at their weakest when they appear short on empathy and seem to limit that vaunted freedom to flourish to a privileged few.