Ecclestone gets some help from Mandy

Last week, Bernie Ecclestone gave an incredibly stupid interview to The Times which was published on Saturday. He told Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester that democracy was over-rated and trotted out some crass cultural determinism. But the really damaging bit was this section:

Does he have a favourite historical dictator — Stalin, perhaps, or Mussolini? “Maggie’s gone,” he says. Then he pauses and continues, thoughtfully: “In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people able to get things done.”

This, for obvious reasons, caused a lot of upset. Ecclestone is now in full damage limitation mode, penning an apology for today’s Times and also saying sorry in a conversation with the Jewish