The cunning Mandelbrown
Sir: David Cameron and his gallant band do not seem to realise that they no longer face the clumsy and clunky Gordon Brown, but a new political hybrid — Peter Mandelbrown. The outward form may still be as lumpy and leaden as ever, but that merely serves as concealment for the hybrid’s cunning in thought and speech, its nimbleness in deceptive manoeuvre, and the lethally poisonous fangs, which it sinks into its victims’ reputations.
Unless David Cameron now hunts down Mandelbrown without mercy, then the monster will surely get him — and the rest of us thereafter.
Correlli Barnett CBE
Norwich
Commonsense solutions
Sir: The Spectator Manifesto is a welcome blast of concentrated common sense. Turning to Matthew Parris’s suggestion for a catch-all Repeal Bill, I was reminded of an earlier proposal made more than 70 years ago by the last MP for the University of Oxford. Perhaps Mr Parris too was thinking of A.P.
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