A case for conviction

It was the News of the World that stopped it. Actually it was a poll in the News of the Screws and i...

It was the News of the World that stopped it. Actually it was a poll in the News of the Screws and its sister paper the Sunday Times that stopped it - and thank God they did. Of course I'm talking about a general election. Frankly the thought of having to listen to a few more weeks of incessant nonsense from the political parties would have driven me nuts. The last two months have felt like a series of ideas proposed by the Tories, which often had their roots in something from the Liberal Democrats, and are then stolen by the Labour Party. Does it matter who came up with the idea in the ...